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Item Number: 103575
Title: The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome
Author: Minor, Heather Hyde
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780271035642
Description: University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 25cm., hardcover, 295pp., 147 illus., several in color Summary: Beginning in the 1730s, Heather Minor tells us, Rome "began to resemble one huge construction site," with a series of ambitious and expensive new building campaigns that transformed the face and substance of Rome. From renovations of the Santa Maria Maggiore and San Giovanni in Laterano and the restoration of the Arch of Constantine, to the creation of the Capitoline Museum and the establishment of the papacy's Calcografia, the push for reform not only renewed papal and Church identity but also revived Italian culture as a whole. Based on extensive archival research and full of fascinating stories about the often stormy theological and intellectual debates central to the attempts at reform, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome brings to life the personalities of architects, theologians, and intellectuals and links these extensive architectural programs with powerful shifts in the intellectual climate of the time. (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies Series)
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