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SIMON (Claude).
Le Palace.
Paris Editions de Minuit 1962 1 vol. Broché. in-8, broché, 230 pp. Edition originale de cette évocation de la Révolution espagnole, à laquelle Claude Simon avait pris part à Barcelone en 1936. Un des 87 exemplaires de tête numérotés sur pur fil. En excellent état.
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Bargello Palace The Invention of Civic Architecture in Florence
, Brepols, 2016 267 p240 x 240 mmIllustrations:152 b/wEnglish, Latin, Italian. ISBN 9781909400313.
This book offers a new, revised building history of the Bargello, the first town hall of Florence. A careful analysis of documents, fabric, and restoration allows us to reconstruct the original site. It reveals two previously unidentified building stages. The first palace, begun in 1255, adapted an ex-neighborhood consortium, reusing an old tower and three houses. In the 1280s, a second palace arose next to it, thus creating a twin-palace complex for the Podest and Capitano, the highest-ranking public officials. Long misidentified as the 1255 palace, the front wing's lower two stories were actually built in 1291-1308. An unroofed precinct wall enclosed the older structures behind a monumental facade, forming an open-air courtyard used for tribunals and stables. This part became known as the ?old palace? when the large, arcaded courtyard and rear wing were addded in 1316-1322. The "new palace" containing the Magdalen Chapel was designed for the Angevin court in residence, not for the communal administration of justice as generally believed. After a 1332 fire devastated the upper stories, the front wing was covered with two immense roof vaults in 1332-1346. Inside, many old dividing walls survived until the nineteenth century. They were demolished with the prisons during the building's conversion into the present national museum, concocting the two vast exhibition halls. This book illustrates the Bargello's early architecture. Reinterpreting the timeline radically changes our understanding of the palace's construction, function, and urban context during the formation of early modern Florence. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Surviving Monument 2. Site and Neighborhood, 1255 3. Disentangling the Evidence 4. Old Bargello: A Palace for the Florentine Popolo, 1255?1308 5. New Bargello: Court of Lords, 1316?1346 6. Function, Iconography, and Urbanism Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Photo Credits Index
Late Antique Palatine Architecture. Palaces and Palace Culture: Patterns of Transculturation
, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 213 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:110 b/w, 50 col., 10 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503574721.
Summary Late antique palaces and palace culture served as the loci of dramatic shifts in architecture and design, as well as urban planning, public works and patronage, in the imperial cities of Rome and Constantinople, and the first palatine centres of the Holy Roman Empire. This volume provides a wealth of detailed information and perspectives on late antique and early medieval design practices, with emphasis on the new spatial configurations and their decorative schema. The essays in this collection provide original, ground-breaking narratives on palatine architecture and culture in this period, integrating cross-cultural dialogues from Rome as centre of imperial palace architecture with details of late palace embellishments and the ceremonial usage which was brought to the fore, as the discussion shifts to the new imperial capital of Nova Roma, Constantinople, and then to the Carolingian centres via Rome and Ravenna. A parallel discussion emerges, where prototypes for palaces and ceremonial courts were imported and reinterpreted through a process of citation. Principal interest resides in the contrasts of palatial and residential complexes, intended to demonstrate new ceremonies and the practices enacted within and through them. The focus of the volume is then shifted to eastern and western provincial and rural high-status residences and landscapes of power, examining the relationships between palaces and late Roman villas and the court and court culture, ultimately revealing a political agenda in use through and in the language of architecture. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Preface in commemoration of Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt - Adolf Hoffmann The Palace of the Roman Emperors on the Palatine in Rome - Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt Magna Mater and the pignora imperii: Creating Places of Power - Sarah Wilson The Political Power of the Palace: The Residences of Maxentius in Rome - Elisha Ann Dumser Adapting to a New Concept of Sovereignty: Some Remarks on Tetrarchic Palace Architecture - Dr Verena Jaeschke Diocletian's Palace: Villa, Sacrum Palatium, Villa-Cum-Factory, Chateau? - Josko Belamaric Architecture, Innovation and Economy in the Late Roman Danube-Balkan Region: Palaces and 'Productive Villas' from Pannonia - Lynda Mulvin The porticus post scaenam of Lugdunum Convenarum - Daniel M. Millette The Question of the Survival of Roman Architectural Traditions within the Byzantine Great Palace - Nigel Westbrook 'In More Romano': Medieval Residences of the Holy Roman Empire - Bernd Nicolai Bibliography
Aedes Academiarum, The Academies and their Palace
be / lannoo /, Academie Royale de Belgique/Verhandelingen. Koninklijke Academie van Belgie. Bruxelles/Brussel., Palais des Academies/Paleis der Academien., 2010 bound, 160pp, 32x25x2 cm . ISBN 9789020991956.
What goes on in the palace that rises at the south-east corner of the Warande Park in Brussels, in sight of Palaces' Square? What is hiding behind the classical facade adorned with Ionic pilasters, which extends between the Royal Palace and the Prime Minister's official residence? Although situated at the heart of the executive institutions, the building does not house any governmental body but instead five Belgian academies, three French-speaking and two Dutch-speaking associations of eminent scientists, artists and authors who together represent the country?s highest academic authority. The palace became the seat of the Royal Academy of Science, Literature and Fine Arts in 1876, but at that time the famous institution and the building had already gone through an eventful history. The palace, erected between 1823 and 1829, had not been designed as an Aedes Academiarum but as a princely residence. It was built for a Dutch prince who was eager to establish himself as king in the Southern Netherlands and it was intended to concretize this ambition in tangible form. This book recounts the history of the Belgian academies and their palace. It discloses the unlikely intentions that underlay the origin of the building and traces the development of its design. It also presents the five academies housed in the palace: the Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux- Arts, the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, the Academie Royale de Medecine, the Koninklijke Academie voor Geneeskunde, and the Academie Royale de Langue et Litterature francaises. (The Dutchlanguage counterpart of the latter, the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, is based in Ghent.)
SWAROVSKI. CRYSTAL PALACE,
Ge, Te Neues , 2010 Hardback, 285 x 320mm., 216pp., 200 colour and b/w illustrations. . ISBN 9783832794163.
Swarovski Crystal Palace is arguably the most important and inspired design project of our times. Devised and instigated by Nadja Swarovski, it provides a snapshot of the most exciting and creative minds of the first decade of the 21st century. Since its inception in 2002 during the Milan Furniture Fair, Swarovski Crystal Palace has changed the course of design, by establishing a platform for leading players in international design to conceptualise, develop and share their most radical works. Swarovski Crystal Palace is a think tank for the convergence of art, design, science and technology. This ongoing forum has commissioned such noteworthy talents as Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Vincent van Duysen to develop original artworks implementing crystal as a creative ingredient. ?The Art of Light and Crystal? is a beautifully illustrated book, which tells the unique story of the Swarovski Crystal Palace project, marking their 10th anniversary and includes interviews with many of the creatives involved. It also traces the groundbreaking ethos that defines Swarovski, following the 115-year history of this remarkable family, and contextualizing its continuing legacy ? a must-read for all design enthusiasts, professionals and students. New book.
Great Palace in Constantinople: An Architectural Interpretation
, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 333 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:55 b/w, 11 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503568355.
Summary The Byzantine Great Palace, located adjacent to the Hagia Sophia, is arguably the most important Western complex to have disappeared from the architectural archive. Despite this absence, it may be argued that the representational halls of the palace - crown halls, basilicas, and reception halls or triclinia - served as models for the ascription of imperial symbolism, and for emulation by rival political centres. In a later phase of its existence, Byzantine emperors, in turn, looked to the example of Islamic palaces in constructing settings for diplomatic exchange. While the Great Palace has been studied through the archaeological record and Byzantine texts, its form remains a matter of conjecture, however in this study, a novel focus upon the operation of ascription of meaning applied to architectural forms, and their emulation in later architecture will enable a sense of how the forms of the palace were understood by their inhabitants and their clients and visiting emissaries. Through comparative analysis of both emulative models and copies, this study proposes a hypothesis of the layout of the complex both in its physical and social contexts.
