Identifies and sketches the history of baroque-style churches, palaces, villas, and fountains in Rome and includes a brief look at the Vatican and ...
Continue Reading →The Grand Tour was all things to all men. For the Adam brothers, Robert and James, Italy offered a world of intense intellectual, ...
Continue Reading →A study of a period in art and design ranges from Baroque architecture in Rome in the early 1600s through Bernini, Boromini, and ...
Continue Reading →Giovanni Pietro Bellori was one of the most important intellectuals of seventeenth-century Italy. Although best known today for his art criticism and biographies ...
Continue Reading →Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, ...
Continue Reading →Draws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to ...
Continue Reading →The 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 →The idea of writing this book first came to me when I was collaborating with the late professor Erik Sjöqvist on a revision ...
Continue Reading →The Roman author Pliny tells the story—well known in the Renaissance—of the famed Grecian painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1951, Arnold Hausers work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone ...
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