In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and ...
Continue Reading βFew art historians would dispute that Jennifer Montagu is one of the most distinguished scholars of Italian (mostly Roman) Baroque sculpture. Besides her ...
Continue Reading βThe rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, ...
Continue Reading βArchitectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to ...
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 βDe Architectura, the ten books by the Roman architect Vitruvius, survives as the only complete architectural treatise from antiquity. Its influence from the ...
Continue Reading βA new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, and the production of ...
Continue Reading βThis book brings together for the first time detailed analyses of Tridentine liturgical reform, Counter-Reformation sanctity and the late Renaissance ‘revolution’ in historical ...
Continue Reading βGian Lorenzo Bernini (1598β1680), sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright, was the most influential artist of seventeenth-century Rome and, indeed, one of the leading ...
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