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‎HOUSE‎

‎Venetian and Ottoman Heritage in the Aegean: The Bailo House in Chalcis, Greece‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 296 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:205 b/w, 173 col., 3 maps b/w, 30 plans, Language: English. ISBN 9782503584096.‎

‎Summary This book tells the astonishing story of a secular building and its inhabitants over six centuries and four successive civilizations. The Bailo House was constructed as a public loggia in the 14th century by Venetian officials in their Aegean colony of Negroponte on the Byzantine island of Euripos. Italian designs were followed and copied in the style of the lagoon's palaces, digging the foundations through the earlier Byzantine layers. It later housed an Ottoman official, along perhaps with his apothecary. Thereafter, it was severely damaged before passing into the hands of a local Ottoman dignitary, who completely transformed it into a typical Middle Eastern mansion. In the late 19th century it was reshaped once more with a neoclassical fa ade to conform to the European models promoted by the Modern Greek state. Extensive study, excavations and restorations over a ten-year period revealed remarkable evidence for one of the few remaining examples of secular architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as abundant and rare information about urban planning, material culture, economic and cultural exchanges, art and aesthetics, etc. It is the tale of a harbor town that was always cosmopolitan, a port of call along the Silk Road, the winter base of the Ottoman fleet, a European enclave in the East. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Part 1. Introduction A. The Restoration Chronicle - Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher B. Chalcis: A Historical Overview - Nikos D. Kontogiannis Part 2. Archaeological Investigation and Finds A. Excavation Report: Architectural Data and Use of the Spaces - Stefania S. Skartsis and Panagiota Taxiarchi B. Catalogue of Finds - Stefania S. Skartsis and Panagiota Taxiarchi C. Venetian Mortars and Ottoman Drinking Jugs: Pharmacy and Sociability in the Bailo House - Valentina Pugliano, with Catalogue by Stefania S. Skartsis Part 3. Architectural Study Plans A1 - D3 A. Architectural History of the Bailo House - Nikos D. Kontogiannis, Yorgos Kourmadas, and Panagiota Taxiarchi B. Architectural Sculpture and Spolia - Stefania S. Skartsis C. The Use of Timber in the Construction of the Bailo House - Yorgos Kourmadas and Eleftheria Tsakanika D. Dendrochronological Dating of the Bailo House with a Supplementary Comment on the Church of Ayia Paraskevi - Tomasz Wazny, Peter Kuniholm, and Charlotte Pearson Part 4. The Relation of the Bailo House to the City and the World A. The Bailo House as Part of the Urban Fabric of Chalcis - Nikos D. Kontogiannis and Evrydiki Katsali B. The Place of the Bailo House in the History of Architecture - Nikos D. Kontogiannis Part 5. The Restoration Project and the Impact on the Modern City A. Restoration of the Bailo House: An Overview - Yorgos Kourmadas B. Reintegrating the Monument in the Modern City - Pari Kalamara Concluding Remarks - Nikos D. Kontogiannis and Stefania S. Skartsis Bibliography Index‎

‎Global architecture houses N°2- alcoves by charles moore, michael graves, the cloisters : achitects hardy holzman pfeiffer, greene & greene by randell makinson, arthur erickson : helmut eppich house / gordon smith house/ catton house, edificio princesa...‎

‎A.D.A. EDITA tokyo / yukio futagawa. 1977. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. Environ 200 pages illustrées en noir/blanc et couleur - en anglais et japonais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎SOMMAIRE : alcoves by charles moore, michael graves, the cloisters : achitects hardy holzman pfeiffer, greene & greene by randell makinson, arthur erickson : helmut eppich house / gordon smith house/ catton house, edificio princesa by higueras & miro, don M. Hisaka, stanley tigerman: hot dog house / metal and glass house, frank gehry, roland coate, helmut schulitz, barton myers, peter hamilton : wolf house, marcel breuer : staehelin house, harry seidler, sverre fehn... Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Learning Hebrew in Medieval England. Christian Scholars and the Longleat House Grammar‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 204 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:24 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888442307.‎

‎Summary For inquisitive Christian minds in the Middle Ages, there were many reasons to learn Hebrew. The rediscovery of classical sources and Aristotelian philosophy and the engagement with Graeco-Arabic sciences that marked the renaissance of the twelfth century also brought about an acute awareness of the need for a philological understanding of the Hebrew language. In England in particular, various factors combined to encourage and facilitate the study of Hebrew texts, not only among well-known writers but also among English scholars whose names have not been preserved. They nevertheless produced bilingual Hebrew-Latin manuscripts in collaboration with Jewish scribes, along with manuals, textbooks, and reference aids to facilitate access to the sources. This volume presents an edition and analysis of one such learning tool: a thirteenth-century grammar written in Hebrew, Latin, and Anglo-Norman French (the vernacular language of the Jews of England) in a complex combination of Hebrew and Latin alphabets. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Tables Preface Facsimile of the Longleat House Grammar Introduction Chapter 1 The Manuscript: Its Structure, Texts and Scribes The Codicological, Textual and Palaeographical Units of LH MS 21 The Codicological and Textual Composition of the Longleat House Grammar The Scribes of LH MS 21 Palaeographical Remarks Page and Text Layout Chapter 2 The Longleat House Grammar and Hebrew Scholarship at Ramsey Abbey The Longleat House Grammar Among the Bilingual Hebrew-Latin Manuscripts The Longleat House Grammar and Ramsey Abbey Chapter 3 The Longleat House Grammar and Different Linguistic Approaches to Hebrew in Medieval England Through the Latin Lens Christian Hebrew Grammar and Jewish Linguistic Traditions Chapter 4 The Edition of the Longleat House Grammar Grammar Textual Unit 1: The Hebrew Grammar in Latin Characters Grammar Textual Unit 2: The Essay on Hebrew Vowels and Accents Grammar Textual Unit 3: The Hebrew Grammar in Hebrew Characters Grammar Textual Unit 4: The Hebrew Verb Paradigms in Latin Characters Chapter 5 Contents and Sources of the Longleat House Grammar Grammar Textual Unit 1: The Hebrew Grammar in Latin Characters Grammar Textual Unit 2: The Essay on Hebrew Vowels and Accents Grammar Textual Unit 3: The Hebrew Grammar in Hebrew Characters Grammar Textual Unit 4: The Hebrew Verb Paradigms in Latin Characters Conclusions Bibliography Index of Quotations Index of Manuscripts General Index‎

‎Digby House and Papers compiled by Noël Digby. Branksome House , Gadley Lane Buxton , Digby House Rutland .‎

‎".: 12. S.l. s.d. ( Branksome House , Gadley Lane Buxton), around 1925, large in-4°, 36 x 28 cm, private edition consisting of 70 nn pp, typescript text on heavy paper, text on recto side only, with tipped on 15 original photographs, two designs of the exterior of Branksome House taken from '' The Builder '' (December 2 , 1899), bound in full dark blue morocco, all edges gilt, front cover nicely decorated in gilt with the title (Digby House and Papers) and a large central coat of arms '' Dea Non Fortuna '', ( 70 x 65 mm), four different large floral ornaments at the corners, raised gilt spine, binding signed J. & E. Bumpus. Finely preserved, only some minor offsetting at the margins of the first flyleaf. Luxuriously bound private edition of the history and houses of the Digby Family, certainly published in only very few numbers, compiled by Noël Digby, grandson of Sir admiral Henry Digby. Among his ancestors is Kenelm Digby, a friend of Sir Anthony Van Dyck's. The genealogical data comprise ca. 15 pp. The rest of the book is devoted to the houses; Branksome House near Buxton and Digby House in Rutland."‎

‎Rubens's House architecture and sculpture Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXII.2 (Rubens house) 2 volumes.‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2022 Hardcover, 704 pages, 2 vols., ENG, 265 x 180 mm, NEW, dustjackets, illustr. 199 b/w, 245 col., . ISBN 9781912554645.‎

‎The house that Rubens built a few years after his return to Antwerp from Italy, and where he lived to the end of his life, was for the most part lost during the course of alterations carried out over the years. Two original parts survive, and they attest to the grandeur of the artist?s house: the portico and garden pavilion. When the house came to be reconstructed in 1938?1946 a great many unsolved questions had to be tackled, but eventually the difficult project was concluded successfully, although the result sometimes departs from what is historically correct. The reconstructed house became a popular museum. Undoubtedly the house, which included the family?s living quarters and contained Rubens?s much admired art collection as well as his famous studio, was built according to the master?s own ideas. It is thus part of Rubens?s oeuvre and forms the subject of this catalogue raisonn . Regrettably almost nothing survives of Rubens's designs, which certainly must have existed. The present volume is the result of a quest to gather together and critically assess all authentic architectural elements and written, pictorial, and archaeological sources. This allows us to form an impression of the appearance of Rubens?s unique house as well as the functions of its various parts. In addition, the sources that the pictor doctus Rubens used for inspiration in his design are discussed at length: architectural treatises, ancient art as well as the Renaissance architecture he had come to know during his stay in Italy.‎