| Description |
569 pages : il., plans, plates, portraits ; 32 cm |
| Contents |
Birth and significance of an architectonic culture -- The image of a city -- Baroque themes -- Mannerism, Baroque, Neoclassicism -- The urbanistic policy of the popes -- The culture of a city -- The contribution of the first generation -- Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Francesco Borromini -- Pietro da Cortona -- The victory of the conservatives -- The witnesses of the revolution -- The Rainaldis -- The Longhi family -- Giovanni Antonio De Rossi -- Antonio Gherardi -- Andrea Pozzo in Roma -- Carlo Fontana -- The Bernini pupils -- The Borrominian Revival and the Rococo venture -- Alessandro Specchi -- The staircase of the Trinita dei Monti and Francesco De Sanctis -- The artisan tradition in the early eighteenth century -- Giuseppe Sardi -- Filippo Raguzzini -- Gabriele Valvassori -- Carol De Dominicis -- Epilogue of a revolution -- The pupils of Carol Fontana -- The restoration of the ancient Basilicas and their authors -- Gregorini and Passalacqua -- Nicola Michetti and Gaetano Chiaveri -- Ferdinando Fuga -- Nicola Salvi and the Trevi Foundation -- Alessandro Galiliei and Luigi Vanvitelli -- The Epigones of the Baroque language |
| Analysis |
Architecture Baroque style Rome, 1600-1750 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographic references (p. 554-560) |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 554-560 |
| Subject |
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.
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Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680.
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Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669. called Pietro da Cortona
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Borromini, Francesco, 1599-1667.
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Architecture -- Italy -- Rome.
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Architecture, Baroque -- Italy -- Rome.
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Architecture, Baroque -- Italy.
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Architecture, Baroque -- Rome (City)
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| Author |
La Penta, Barbara Luigia, translator
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| LC no. |
76089840 |
| ISBN |
0262160404 |
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