2011 Jan-Mar

0015 Hubertus Günther, Die Salomonische Säulenordnung

As early as 1549, i.e. 50 years before Villalpando's famous Ezechiel commentary was published, Jacques Androuet Ducerceau introduced the Salomonic Order in his Exempla arcuum, a series of engravings in which [...]

0016 Lubomír Konečný, Georg Franz Buquoy und "La famosissima Notte"

In the first half of the 19th century, Georg Franz Buquoy belonged to the leading personalities of Czech society, science and culture. He authored approximately thirty pieces of writing on various topics, among them a thirteen-pages booklet [...]

0017 Nissim Gal, Landscape Painting. Rewriting Painting in the Postmedium Condition

Is landscape painting still relevant today? To answer this question the article examines the work of the contemporary artist Yehudit Sasportas whose unique kind of written-drawn landscape painting may be characterized as "painting under erasure" [...]

0018 Cosmin Ungureanu, "Sia funzion la rappresentazione." Carlo Lodoli and the Crisis of Architecture

Similarly with the progressive turn from magic to sciences, architecture underwent a slow transformation starting with the last decades of the 17th century. Carlo Lodoli's thought [...]

0019 Patrick Kragelund, "Man müsse keine Statue équestre machen": Abildgaard and Schadow in Copenhagen 1791

In connection with the project of erecting an equestrian statue for King Frederick the Great of Prussia, the Berlin sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow was in the autumn 1791 sent on a research tour to [...]