St. Peter’s in the Vatican has a long and turbulent history. First constructed in the fourth century to honor the tomb of St. ...
Continue Reading βInitially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass’s translation of Filippo Baldinucci’s Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of ...
Continue Reading βBernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, ...
Continue Reading βThe first volume of Rome in the Age of Bernini (1585-1644) was published in 1982. In the present volume I continue the story ...
Continue Reading βThe idea of writing this book first came to me when I was collaborating with the late professor Erik SjΓΆqvist on a revision ...
Continue Reading βFrom the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts ...
Continue Reading βHistorians generally recognize that the architectural patronage of Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584) provided important examples of Counter- Reformation architecture, and crucial models and criteria ...
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