I started my research by looking up several key words of the book I had already gotten to know in the previous weeks. The title of that book was „De la Distribution des Maisons de Plaisance et de la Décoration des Édifices en Général“ by J. F. Blondel. As I searched for „maison de plaisances“,…
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I started to search with multiple combination of words, each time clicking on “explore” and then “find” : art, fortifications, war, universal art of fortifications, drawing… I did get decent results but nothing very relevant enough really. After a few more attempts, I then input the following words : “fortifications” and “treatise”. I wanted to…
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My book 《Newes Itinerarium Italie》 is a travel guide of Italy back in 17th century written by Joseph Furttenbach. According to the author the book should be read as a travel literature because it also describes the country’s morals and customs, spiritual and political and buildings that are worth seeing. The book also contains some…
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The book which was assigned to me bears the title “Delle Basiliche Antiche”, written by Enea Arnaldi. Using the Xenotheka library search engine “Ask Alice”, I devoured myself to seek relations of this book and its topics to other books in the library. Personally, I wanted to grasp a deeper understanding of the term “basilica”…
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At first, it was quite difficult to narrow down the sources and works, that could be of use for a good analysis. Just after a while, and various attempts of typing in Alice’s brain the right libraries – interesting topics started to appear. For the first one, I have chosen the “Xenotheka Library” for Alices’s…
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#21-957-295 #40 First of all, I reread my text of the task Argument and highlighted the most meaningful passages and words, so that I have a good overview of my text. The number of words that underline the content of the book has turned out to be rather small compared to the text length. This…
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The book assigned to me is called the architecture of Palladio and was written by Leoni Giacomo. I started by using Alices brain “Xenotheka Library” as topic of conversation i chose architecture and i typed the searching words public and private or the five orders. The first Book which appeared in both attempts was the…
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I started the conversation with the most obvious words: obelisk and Rome. While “obelisk” was a good conversation starter, the word Rome opened the door of Roman history, of Roman architecture and Italy in general. To narrow down the results, I tried the combination of “obelisk in rome”. And came across a book named “Adolf…
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To understand AskAlice better I started off with several very generic search entries. First of them being “Architecture” in all possible search fields. I didn’t expect much since it was a too broad search. To my surprise I found many interesting books (most of them being quite new and modern) and I began to understand…
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Generally I used the Xenotheka library as Alice’s brain. As topic of the conversation I used the word “column” because that is the point it is all about in my book, V columnae from Hans Blum. First of all I used the word “illustration” because in the book V columnae there is a lot of…