Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture

Name: Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture
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ISBN: 9780195035483

ISBN-10: 0195035488

ISBN-13: 9780195035483

Edition: 1986

Authors: John Varriano

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From the late 1500s to the mid-1700s, Italy gave the world some of theliveliest and most imaginative structures in the history of architecture. Thefirst comprehensive study in English of this critical period, thiswell-illustrated book offers chapters on key architects--Gianlorenzo Bernini,Francesco Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Guarino Guarini--as well as detailedtreatments of the work of many less well-known architects who were active fromSicily to Venice.

Book details

List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/20/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 10.00" wide x 7.01" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

John Varriano is Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture, Rome: A Literary Companion, and Caravaggio: The Art of Realism.




Introduction



Precursors of the Roman Baroque: Vignola to Carlo Maderno



Francesco Borromini



Gianlorenzo Bernini



Pietro da Cortona



Other Aspects of the Roman Baroque



Rococoand Academic Classicism in Eighteenth-Century Rome



Northern Italy in the Seventeenth Century



Guarino Guarini



Northern Italy in the Eighteenth Century



Southern Italy


Glossary


Illustration Credits


Index