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Pedro P. Palazzo's profile was updated on SAH Commons 5 years ago
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Accouplement: vicissitudes of an architectural motif in classical France on SAH Commons 5 years ago
Coupled columns in French architecture and the reaction to their use from the Renaissance up to the classical rationalism of the early twentieth century hinged on the debates regarding the relation- ship between structural stability and visual delight, over the backdrop of the search for a national classical tradition. This architectural motif was…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 in the group
Asia Lusitana on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 on SAH Commons 5 years ago
This article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
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Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]
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Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 in the group
British History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]
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Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]
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Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]
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Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
The first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Literary History and Architectural Traditionalism in Portugal and Brazil in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis article outlines the formation of architectural theory in Portugal and Brazil during the nineteenth century, arguing that such theory was initially contained within the social circle and methodological scope of literary history. It makes this case by following the architectural discourses of writers, literary critics, and ethnographers. This…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Literary History and Architectural Traditionalism in Portugal and Brazil in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis article outlines the formation of architectural theory in Portugal and Brazil during the nineteenth century, arguing that such theory was initially contained within the social circle and methodological scope of literary history. It makes this case by following the architectural discourses of writers, literary critics, and ethnographers. This…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Literary History and Architectural Traditionalism in Portugal and Brazil on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
This article outlines the formation of architectural theory in Portugal and Brazil during the nineteenth century, arguing that such theory was initially contained within the social circle and methodological scope of literary history. It makes this case by following the architectural discourses of writers, literary critics, and ethnographers. This…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Mello, Heitor de in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoBrazilian architect. He was an influential eclectic architect highly active in Rio de Janeiro and a professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA). Soon after graduating from the ENBA, he established his firm in 1898. The son of Custódio José de Mello, a republican admiral and cabinet minister, Mello benefited from his family’s con…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Mello, Heitor de in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoBrazilian architect. He was an influential eclectic architect highly active in Rio de Janeiro and a professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA). Soon after graduating from the ENBA, he established his firm in 1898. The son of Custódio José de Mello, a republican admiral and cabinet minister, Mello benefited from his family’s con…[Read more]
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Brazilian architect. He was an influential eclectic architect highly active in Rio de Janeiro and a professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA). Soon after graduating from the ENBA, he established his firm in 1898. The son of Custódio José de Mello, a republican admiral and cabinet minister, Mello benefited from his family’s con…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]
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