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Author |
: Marie-Thérèse Zenner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 435 |
Release |
: 2017-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351875806 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351875809 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Villard's Legacy by : Marie-Thérèse Zenner
Villard's Legacy is in memory of the celebrated iconoclastic historian, Jean Gimpel, and represents a fundamental contribution to the new AVISTA series with Ashgate Publishing. AVISTA was the brainchild of Gimpel, a genius at making the right people meet to advance knowledge through a confluence of ideas drawn equally from the practical and scholarly domains. Sixteen papers and a tribute to Gimpel underscore this confluence of technology, science and art within medieval culture. Appropriately, six papers offer new interpretations on aspects of Villard de Honnecourt's portfolio, which Gimpel rightly recognized and promoted as a unique and precious record of pre-modern technology and culture. This thirteenth-century manuscript is now known to a wider public as the earliest testimony left by a master builder in Gothic Europe. Of particular significance, for the first time in eight centuries, a Compagnon du Devoir, initiated in the same oral tradition as Villard, opens the door to interpreting these remarkable drawings. Three papers address previously ignored aspects in the construction of French and English Gothic churches, from the engineering of aerodynamic spires, to the elastic materials of vault webbing, to the social conventions of formal design. Three other contributors treat essential elements of a broader technological culture, such as the horse harness and the minting of coins, as well as the applicability of medieval technology to the modern world, in particular third world countries, a project pioneered by Gimpel. Four papers conclude the volume by treating the sciences of measure and their cultural expression in medieval Europe, embracing both the concepts of space and time, geometry as a mathematical discipline, and the graphic expression of scientific data. These interdisciplinary studies are comprehensive in chronological and geographic range, extending from the 8th to 15th centuries, from Ireland across Europe.
Author |
: Alexander Benjamin Craghead |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781626193093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1626193096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Railway Palaces of Portland, Oregon: The Architectural Legacy of Henry Villard by : Alexander Benjamin Craghead
In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision, he hired architects McKim, Mead & White to design a massive passenger station and a first-class hotel. Despite financial panics, lost fortunes and stalled construction, the Portland Hotel opened in 1890 and remained the social heart of the city for sixty years. While the original station was never built, Villard returned as a pivotal benefactor of Union Station, saving its iconic clock tower in the process. Author Alexander Benjamin Craghead tells the story of this Gilded Age patron and the architecture that helped shape the city's identity.
Author |
: James M. McPherson |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691100395 |
ISBN-13 |
: 069110039X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Abolitionist Legacy by : James M. McPherson
Tracing the activities of nearly 300 abolitionists and their descendants, this title reveals that some played a crucial role in the establishment of schools and colleges for southern blacks, while others formed the vanguard of liberals who founded the NAACP in 1910.
Author |
: Henry Villard |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044004608915 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 ...: 1863-1900 by : Henry Villard
Author |
: Henry Villard |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044014176374 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 ... by : Henry Villard
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1004 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: LLMC:NYAPR1XTPB0E |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0E Downloads) |
Synopsis Supreme Court Case on Appeal by :
Author |
: Frances Chamberlain Holley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 500 |
Release |
: 1890 |
ISBN-10 |
: YALE:39002012537545 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Once Their Home, Or, Our Legacy from the Dahkotahs by : Frances Chamberlain Holley
Author |
: Charles Silvestre |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1928 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B704771 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aimée Villard, Daughter of France by : Charles Silvestre
Author |
: Columbia University |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 666 |
Release |
: 1920 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101068037678 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records ... by : Columbia University
Author |
: Henry Villard |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015020161389 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900...: 1835-1862 by : Henry Villard