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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„Inventions of architectural ornaments by Michel Angello Buonaruotti and others“ is a book that only consists illustrations. There’s no theory written down. I know that that book is about inventions and about ornaments – that’s what the title is telling me – but from the illustrations I only get my subjective impression. At the same…
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The book I was assigned is “Architectura hydraulica, oder: Anleitung zu denen Brunnenkünsten”.At first I started looking for associations with the author’s name: Caspar Walter, but even with different search methods and through the various bookshops I could not find anything interesting.i then moved on to searching for keywords related to the topics covered in…
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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…