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Continue Reading βDraws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to ...
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 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 βThe year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI ...
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 ...
Continue Reading βAfter 1500, as Catholic Europe fragmented into warring sects, evidence of a pagan past came newly into view, and travelers to distant places ...
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