Give the Gift of Good Cheer, Sweet Words & Love at Christmas
Celebrate the festive season with good cheer, it’s time for sweet words, to be thankful to your host and resolve to give joy to others, to praise and enjoy life
Classical Architecture
Mauritshuis, A Pearl of a House – Royal Cabinet of Paintings
The beautiful restrained classically inspired Mauritshuis in The Netherlands was recently restored as a museum filled with jewels, a royal cabinet of paintings
Vitruvius On Architecture – The Art of Enclosing Space
The art of enclosing space is something 1st century Roman architect and engineer Marcus Pollio Vitruvius knew about and recorded in his treatise on architecture
Beleura – Victorian Gold Boom Mansion, In Trust for a Nation
Beleura house and garden on the Mornington Peninsula is the result of the prosperity its owner enjoyed during Victoria’s Goldrush days during the 19th century
Classical Architecture – At the Meeting of Human and Divine
Design in architecture reached a zenith at Athens in the fifth century. It is a place where artists were caught between the meeting of the human with the divine
Antonio Canova – – Seven Last Works on Show The Met New York
A unique show of sculptural reliefs by Italian sculptor Antonio Canova: The Seven Last Works will be at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY from January 22, 2014
Achilles – Greek Hero and the Classical Ideal in Sculpture
Greek sculpture was the first and only ancient art to break free from conceptual conventions exploring how art might imitate nature, or even improve upon it
Christmas – A Time for Rest, Recreation and Refreshment
Make a choice from our Top Twelve Posts 2012 while we are on holidays December 24 2012 – January 7, 2013. Merry Xmas, Happy New Year
Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Life
The study of architecture as a profession in our contemporary sense did not exist in the colonies of England when Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) went to college in 1760. Many of England’s grandest tourists were gentlemen architects. At 17 he had an uncommon capacity for applying himself and he taught himself…
An Inner Balance – Man and Nature
For the ancient Greek civilisation the natural landscape was considered sacred, literally the ‘landscape of the gods’ It was not just a parcel of land surrounding a man made construction, but a holy place one embodying and reflecting the character of the God. Within each part of the landscape the…
Heaven on Earth? – Palladian Villa at Padua nearby to Venice
The precise location of heaven on earth has never really been established. However it could be at the Villa Moro Malipiero at Padua, nearby to Venice in Northern Italy.
Architecture and Community
Art and architecture in Ancient Greece reflected the nature of a society that loved freedom and quality. It was an expression of their theology, philosophy and spirituality. Greeks had a great love of the arts and worked for and had a share in, the good of the community. Like the…