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Download or read book The Getty Villa written by Marion True and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Getty Museum, housed in a replica of a Roman Villa on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is one of Los Angeles's most treasured landmarks. Closed for almost ten years while renovations were made to the building and the site itself was transformed into a center for the study of antiquities and conservation, the Getty Villa is now set to open late in 2005. The Getty Villa is a lively history of the Getty Museum, its renowned antiquities collections, and its growth from a small museum in a ranch house in Malibu to its first home in a building designed to replicate what we know of the Villa dei Papiri, an ancient Roman villa partially uncovered in Herculaneum. Most engagingly, this book records the ten-year adventure in reconfiguring a beautiful, but topographically challenging, site into one that could continue to accommodate the splendid Museum building and also provide for an outdoor theater, laboratories for conservation work and research, offices for staff and visiting scholars, and an education program for adults and children. This is a story of architectural imagination, geographical challenges, and legal hurdles, all of which have resulted in a truly unique and beautiful site. The story is an enlightening and rewarding one for anyone interested in architecture and in the difficulties posed by building on a grand scale in the twenty-first century. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book includes 250 reproductions of works of art, photographs of both the old and the new Getty Museum, site plans, and architectural elevations.
Download or read book La Villa written by Bartolomeo Taegio and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1559 and appearing here for the first time in English, La Villa is a rare source of Renaissance landscape theory. Written by Bartolomeo Taegio, a Milanese jurist and man of letters, after his banishment (possibly for murder, Thomas E. Beck speculates), the text takes the form of a dialogue between two gentlemen, one a proponent of the country, the other of the city. While it is not a gardening treatise, La Villa reflects an aesthetic appreciation of the land in the Renaissance, reveals the symbolic and metaphorical significance of sixteenth-century gardens for their owners, and articulates a specific philosophy about the interaction of nature and culture in the garden. This edition of the original Italian text and Beck's English translation is augmented with notes in which Beck identifies numerous references to literary sources in La Villa and more than 280 people and places mentioned in the dialogue. The introduction illuminates Taegio's life and intellectual activity, his obligations to his sources, the cultural context, and the place of La Villa in Renaissance villa literature. It also demonstrates the enduring relevance of La Villa for architecture and landscape architecture. La Villa makes a valuable contribution to the body of literature about place-making, precisely because it treats the villa as an idea and not as a building type.
Book Synopsis Los Protocolos de La Villa de Nuestra Senora Santa Anna de Camargo. 1762-1809. by : Prof Saenz Ramirez
Download or read book Los Protocolos de La Villa de Nuestra Senora Santa Anna de Camargo. 1762-1809. written by Prof Saenz Ramirez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Por Don P. de Berástegui, cuya es la villa de Alpera en el Reyno de Murcia. Contra la villa de Almansa, y consortes. Sobre la juridicion privativa de la dicha villa de Alpera by : Juan de VERÁSTEGUI
Download or read book Por Don P. de Berástegui, cuya es la villa de Alpera en el Reyno de Murcia. Contra la villa de Almansa, y consortes. Sobre la juridicion privativa de la dicha villa de Alpera written by Juan de VERÁSTEGUI and published by . This book was released on 1620 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc by : Nico F. Declercq
Download or read book The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc written by Nico F. Declercq and published by Nico F. Declercq. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, consisting of almost 70 chapters, spread over ten parts and a foreword section, covers the following topics. A prelude and introduces the reader to the world of Heraldry, the Town and the Duchy of Montblanc in Spain and Onomastics. Finally, it provides a brief history to understand the book’s chronological context better. A part on genetics is provided to outline the DNA analysis, made by different commercial companies, of the genes of the author and his brother-in-law. The investigations compare genetics with the genealogy provided in this work and are consistent. They show, for instance, that the author is a male descendent of the Desclergues of Montblanc and is equally blood-related to them through his mother, consistent with what the records provide. Furthermore, an autosomal analysis reveals a percentage-wise appearance, in agreement with the documents, of DNA strings originating from Spain, where the Desclergues came from, and Brittany, where they had their ancient paternal roots. Concerning the DNA of his brother in law, illustrative for his wife, the author discovered results in agreement with his wife’s ancestors’ history. A Part Brittany in France goes deeper into the life of Bertrand Du Guesclin and the fact that he begot offspring in Spain. The latter is well-known, and the book provides a comprehensive literature survey on this subject. Apart from autosomal DNA, pointing at ancient roots in Brittany, the author also uncovered indications in documents retrieved in Spain in the archives of de Pedrolo, equally descendants of the Desclergues. A major Part describes the Desclergue family of Montblanc and their settlement in Belgium. A lot of this knowledge had already been described by earlier investigators, and an exhaustive overview of all existing knowledge about the family is provided insofar as published in the past. In addition, the author provides extensive research results not described formerly, particularly of the Desclergues who left Spain for Flanders around 1600 and their descendants. The unravelled archives include civil and ecclesiastic records and documents found in the libraries of some Spanish military strongholds in Flanders. The book situates the facts in history and supplies valuable general knowledge to broad readers. The data range from the 1500s until the present and cover the author’s paternal ancestry line. Numerous military campaigns in the 16th and 17th centuries are clarified, with particular attention to the lives and involvements of the Desclergues. As a coincidence, the author’s mother also stems from the Desclergues, and this line is equally represented A large part is devoted to the de Silva family of Uduwara from whom the author’s wife stems. This is particularly interesting to globe trotters and describes the long paternal history of the author’s wife, Shirani de Silva. The bloodline originated in the North West of India and migrated through Persia to Byzantine. They continued to Iberia, where they arrived as new settlers and mixed with locals. The family line of Carvalho, so initiated, later blended with de Silva, consequently migrated to Goa during the Iberian expansion to India. From Goa, they relocated to Uduwara in Sri Lanka to protect a fortification on the Kalu Ganga river. The evidence contains documents, DNA analysis and new archaeological findings in Uduwara and Goa. Other ancestry lines are described separately. Some may only be interesting to his descendants; others are, again, of general interest, such as the family of de Patin that played an essential role during the Belgian Austrian era. Although not anticipated early in this research, the author discovered Antoni Desclergue’s (DC06) involvement in establishing a chapel in Deerlijk in Belgium. The evidence is provided by archaeological discoveries and records and is extensively described in a separate part. The facts are essential in understanding the influence of Monblanquians in Flanders but are also thought-provoking for the inhabitants of Deerlijk. Indeed, the village’s ancient legend of a miracle in 1634 is based on solid ground and not on a fairy tale as one believed during the previous decennia. The nobleman in the story was Antoni Desclergue, while the events were almost an exact copy of the legend of Mare de Deu de la Serra in Montblanc. The main difference is that oxen were involved in Montblanc and horses in Deerlijk. The oldest known depiction of the miracle exposes an image of Monblancs Mare de Deu de la Serra and discloses Antoni Desclergue’s initials. Furthermore, Antoni Desclergue later ornamented the chapel with the artwork. For instance, he provided a polychrome panel depicting the Main Square of Montblanc, including the House of Desclergue and also a beautiful statuette by Cano.
Book Synopsis The Villa in Italy by : Elizabeth Edmondson
Download or read book The Villa in Italy written by Elizabeth Edmondson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a marvellously atmospheric tale of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast. Each of them has been named in a will, but nobody knows their benefactress... Four very different people are named in a will: Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, desperately poor and unable to dislodge her writer's block; and Lucius, ostensibly in control but whose personal life is in chaos. All are summoned to the Villa Dante, home of the late Beatrice Malaspina. But who was she? While they wait to find out, the villa begins to work its seductive magic. With its faded frescoes, overgrown garden and magnificent mediaeval tower, it is unlike anywhere they have been before. Slowly, four characters who have gone to great lengths to hide their troubles find that change - and even hope - is possible after all. But, the mysterious Beatrice has a devastating secret to reveal that will affect them all! A beautiful evocation of Italy in the aftermath of World War Two, the personal consequences of living through such a time, and a celebration of humankind's ability to heal and learn to love again, this most absorbing novel will win Elizabeth Edmondson a host of new fans.
Book Synopsis Relacion del viage, que desde la villa de Madrid ha hecho a la de Yrun, el excelentissimo señor Don Luys Mendez de Haro y Sotomayor ... por mandado del Rey Don Felipe Quarto ... a tratar los ajustamientos de la paz con el señor Cardenal Iulio Mazarino ... y el estado que tiene esta paz, hasta el dia primero de agosto deste año de 1659 by :
Download or read book Relacion del viage, que desde la villa de Madrid ha hecho a la de Yrun, el excelentissimo señor Don Luys Mendez de Haro y Sotomayor ... por mandado del Rey Don Felipe Quarto ... a tratar los ajustamientos de la paz con el señor Cardenal Iulio Mazarino ... y el estado que tiene esta paz, hasta el dia primero de agosto deste año de 1659 written by and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Villa written by Nora Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-19 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts exposes a proud family’s deadly secrets in this passionate tale of two Napa Valley rivals... PR executive Sophia Giambelli loves her job and has never worried about competition. For three generations, her family’s wines have been world-renowned for their quality. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan family’s winery—and Sophia will be assuming a new role. As a savvy businesswoman, Sophia knows she must be prepared for anything...but she isn’t prepared for Tyler MacMillan. They’ve been ordered to work together very closely, to facilitate the merger. Sophia must teach Ty the finer points of marketing—and Ty, in turn, shows her how to get down and dirty, to use the sun, rain, and earth to coax the sweetest grapes from the vineyard. As they toil together, both in and out of the fields, Sophia is torn between a powerful attraction and a professional rivalry. At the end of the season, the course of the company’s future—and the legacy of the villa—may take an entirely new direction. And when acts of sabotage threaten both the family business and the family itself, Sophia’s quest will be not only for dominance, but also for survival.
Book Synopsis Dismantling the Sicilian by : Jesus de la Villa
Download or read book Dismantling the Sicilian written by Jesus de la Villa and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a completely new edition, updated and extended from the original 2009 publication. It includes important changes in the basic framework of the repertoire and presents lots of new ideas and hundreds of novelties. The Sicilian Defence is the most widely played chess opening, both at club level as well as among top grandmasters. Since Black gets dynamic play in almost all variations, Black players of all levels will probably continue to play the Sicilian for a long time to come. It has been difficult for White to obtain any advantage in Sicilian sidelines, and this book therefore presents a complete repertoire for White in the most important main lines: the Open Sicilians with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3. Each variation is presented with its main ideas, its typical tactics and strategies, and with instructive games. The authors always summarize the most important features.
Download or read book Villa of Delirium written by Adrien Goetz and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terrific."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Letters to Camondo "Makes you want to travel, do somersaults and stretches, drink champagne in evening dress, read, think ... Intoxicating."—Publishers Weekly Along the French Riviera in the early 1900s, an illustrious family in thrall to classical antiquity builds a fabulous villa—a replica of a Greek palace, complete with marble columns and frescoes depicting mythological gods. The Reinachs--related to other wealthy Jews like the Rothschilds and the Ephrussis—attempt to recreate a "pure beauty" lost in the 20th century. The narrator of this brilliant novel calls the imposing house an act of delirium, "proof that one could travel back in time, just like resetting a clock, and resist the outside world." The story of the villa and its glamorous inhabitants is recounted by the son of a servant from the nearby estate of Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Paris tower, and the two contrasting structures present opposite responses to modernity. The son is adopted by the Reinachs, initiated into the era of Socrates and instructed in classical Greek. He joins a family pilgrimage to Athens, falls in love with a married woman, and survives the Nazi confiscation of the house and deportation to death camps of Reinach grandchildren. This is a Greek epic for the modern era.
Book Synopsis The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook by : Jesus de la Villa
Download or read book The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook written by Jesus de la Villa and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus de la Villa’s worldwide bestseller 100 Endgames You Must Know successfully debunked the myth that endgame theory is complex and that endgame books are tedious. Reviewers praised its clarity and completeness and thousands of players dramatically improved their endgame understanding (and their results!). In recent years, De la Villa’s students sometimes complained that when they had to apply what they had studied in 100 Endgames, they didn’t always have the material ready at their fingertips. De la Villa then made an important discovery: most of the errors his students made are being made by others as well, even by strong and sometimes famous chess players! De la Villa started collecting training material and selected those exercises best suited to retain and improve your knowledge and avoid common errors. In this book the Spanish grandmaster presents hundreds of exercises grouped according to the various chapters in 100 Endgames. Solving these puzzles will drive home the most important ideas, refresh your knowledge and improve your technique. This book contains a massive amount of clear, concise and easy-to-follow chess endgame instruction. The advice De la Villa gives in the solutions is practical and useful. Ideal for every post-beginner, club player and candidate master who wishes to win more games.
Download or read book The Villa written by James S. Ackerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper) In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the “country place” as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. “The villa,” he reminds us, “accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality.” As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architect’s imagination.
Book Synopsis Up at the Villa by : W. Somerset Maugham
Download or read book Up at the Villa written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Up at the Villa" by W. Somerset Maugham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by : Colin Rowe
Download or read book The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays written by Colin Rowe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1982-09-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.
Book Synopsis The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum by : Mantha Zarmakoupi
Download or read book The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum written by Mantha Zarmakoupi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact library to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity) and bronze sculptures found in the villa have contributed to our knowledge of the ancient world and the villa has become for us the "ideal model" of Roman luxury villa culture. This volume brings together papers delivered by experts in various fields addressing the cultural significance of this ancient site in its contemporary Roman context as well as its cultural reception from its discovery over two hundred and fifty years ago to the most recent excavations in the late twentieth century. They also explore the ways in which digital archaeology can assist our efforts to understand and investigate ancient sites. Topics treated include the Villa's architecture, decoration, and content (i.e., wall-paintings, sculptures, and papyri); their reception since the 18th century; and the current state of knowledge based on the recent partial excavations in the Villa, presented here in English for the first time. Furthermore, the use of digital models of the Villa that incorporate the data from the new excavations and a discussion on the ways in which such models may be used for educational and research purposes are also presented.
Book Synopsis The Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum by : Carol C. Mattusch
Download or read book The Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum written by Carol C. Mattusch and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum-buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750-contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Before they were published or exhibited, the sculptures were restored so as to appear whole: it is thus that they helped to shape early modern tastes in classical sculpture. The book describes the nature of the ancient sculptures and their impact on the modern public. Their chance discovery affected the interpretation of the statues-their styles and subjects-over the course of the next 250 years. The ancient sculptures were copied extensively in reproductions of various sizes and patinas. The author traces the popularity of these copies in Europe and America. Also presented in the book is a technical study of the production techniques and materials of the sculptures, as well as of their modern restoration history. Scientific analyses and detailed photographs reveal both how the pieces were cast and pieced together in antiquity and how they were restored in the eighteenth century. Even though this collection has been known for two and a half centuries, this book covers for the first time the eclectic nature of the sculptures, their acutual condition, and their quality, pointing in some cases to mass production.
Book Synopsis Villa Air-Bel by : Rosemary Sullivan
Download or read book Villa Air-Bel written by Rosemary Sullivan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941. . . . A moving tale of great sacrifice in tumultuous times.” — Publishers Weekly Paris 1940. Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the conquering Third Reich, live in daily fear of arrest, deportation, and death. Their only salvation is the Villa Air-Bel, a chateau outside Marseille where a group of young people, financed by a private American relief organization, will go to extraordinary lengths to keep them alive. In Villa Air-Bel, Rosemary Sullivan sheds light on this suspenseful, dramatic, and intriguing story, introducing the brave men and women who use every means possible to stave off the Nazis and the Vichy officials, and goes inside the chateau’s walls to uncover the private worlds and the web of relationships its remarkable inhabitants developed.
