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Traces on the Rhodian Shore
In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships to it. Is the earth, which is obviously a fit environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made creation? Have its climates, its relief, the configuration of its continents influenced the moral and social nature of individuals, and have they had an influence in molding the character and nature of human culture? In his long tenure of the earth, in what manner has man changed it from its hypothetical pristine condition? From the time of the Greeks to our own, answers to these questions have been and are being given so frequently and so continually ...
Forgery, Replica, Fiction
Credulity -- Reference by artifact -- Germany and "Renaissance"--Forgery -- Replica -- Fiction -- Re-enactment.
Pevsner
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The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980
In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and Borromini’s dome for Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant’Ivo, Borromini accomplished 'the movement of the whole pattern [...] from the ground to the lantern, without entirely ending even there.' And yet he merely 'groped' towards that which could 'be completely effected' in modern architecture-achieving 'the transition between inner and outer space.' The intellectual debt of modern architecture to moderni...
Nachträge / Personenregister
Das Personenregister der DBE verzeichnet in alphabetischer Reihenfolge alle Namen von historisch fassbaren Personen, die in den Bänden 1 bis 10 einen eigenen Artikel haben oder im Text genannt sind. Beim Registerstichwort werden neben dem vollen Namen der Beruf sowie Geburts- und Sterbejahr genannt. Namensvarianten, Geburtsnamen, Pseudonyme etc. werden durch ein Verweissystem aufgeschlüsselt; verwiesen wird auf den Namen, unter dem der Artikel in der DBE zu finden ist.
