Physical description; xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes documents in French (Appendices). Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index. Contents; Preface: Bowerbirds and architecture -- 1. Luxury and building: The long life of an issue. From Genesis to Perpendicular England. Renaissance Italy. The Reformation: Fun in Protestant Basle, insecurity in Catholic Vienna. Venice: Architecture as luxury confronted. Magnificence versus luxury in northern Europe. 'Quo vadis?' -- 2. Luxury architecture in fiction and philosophy. The classical heritage. The Renaissance. 'Quo vadis?' -- 3. Renaissance architectures and peoples. The problem of authority. Language, national identity and building. Books on architecture: Manuals and treatises for all nations? Roads fro.
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