"When All of Rome Was Under Construction": The Building Process in Baroque Rome

by Dorothy Metzger Habel

In "When All of Rome Was Under Construction," architectural historian Dorothy Metzger Habel considers the politics and processes involved in building the city of Rome during the baroque period. Like many historians of the period, Habel previously focused on the grand schemes of patronage; now, however, she reconstructs the role of the "public voice" in the creation of the city. She presents the case that Rome's built environment did not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271055731
• ISBN13: 9780271055732
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 10.3"