Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture

by John Varriano

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195035488
• ISBN13: 9780195035483
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.9" x 6.9"