Book DescriptionThis study analyses the distinctive look of Hispanic architecture. Its triangulate format, originated in Islamic Spain, was based on workshop techniques once used by journeyman designers and simple artisans. Spain was the only European transatlantic colonial power to have once been occupied by Islamic overlords. Spain?...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571?1610) has long been recognized as one of the great innovators in the history of art. Through detailed analysis of paintings from his early Roman period, 1594?1602, this study now situates his art firmly within both its humanistic and its scientific context. Here, both his revolutionary painterly techniques?...

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