Genius in the Design Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome

Name: Genius in the Design Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome
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ISBN: 9780060525347

ISBN-10: 0060525347

ISBN-13: 9780060525347

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Authors: Jake Morrissey

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The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, "The Genius in the Design" is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process, created the spectacular Roman cityscape…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations



The Beginning and the End



Talent and Ambition



The Perpetual and the Beautiful



A Collaboration in Bronze



The Circle and the Triangle



"Ignorant Persons and Copyists"



An Ox and a Deer



Ecstasy and Wisdom



A Pope's Renovations



Water and Disappointment



Affection and Caprices



Training the Eye to See



No Greater Favor, No Sadder End



A Legacy in Stone


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index