Hofmann, History Takes Place: Rome
“Rome, golden, eternally powerful, glorious, world-dominating Rome, sovereign of cities, city of cities, the fortunate, regal, holy city, the greatest of cities, seat ...
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Federico Borromeo, Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan (1564–1631), is well known as a leading Catholic reformer and as the founder of the Ambrosiana library, art ...
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Blunt, Guide to Baroque Rome
Identifies and sketches the history of baroque-style churches, palaces, villas, and fountains in Rome and includes a brief look at the Vatican and ...
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St. Peter’s in the Vatican has a long and turbulent history. First constructed in the fourth century to honor the tomb of St. ...
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Blunt, Baroque and Rococo: Architecture and Decoration
A study of a period in art and design ranges from Baroque architecture in Rome in the early 1600s through Bernini, Boromini, and ...
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Baldinucci, The Life of Bernini
Initially 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 ...
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Issued in conjunction with a 2016 exhibition of this sculptor rendered by Italian Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and his father, Pietro ...
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor of the Baroque period, and yet—surprisingly—there has never before been a major exhibition of his sculpture ...
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Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, ...
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The institution of the pantheon has come a long way from its classical origins. Invented to describe a temple dedicated to many deities, ...
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