To avoid razing the ruins of previously destroyed buildings, the leaders wanted ... by the greatest painters and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance. After the work was completed, the city ...

Criterion (iv): Zamość is an oustanding example of a Renaissance planned town of the late 16th century, which retains its original layout and fortifications and a large number of buildings of ...

Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance By Anthony Grafton ... that painting is grounded in mathematics, that architecture manifests and produces social order, that ...