Borromini
At first glance, Borromini’s architecture is a flight of Baroque fantasy, the product of limitless imagination. A closer look reveals an almost ruthlessly logical geometry underlying his creation. Blunt shows how the combination of revolutionary inventiveness and intellectual control gives Borromini’s work its great appeal.
Print Book, English, 1979
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1979
Cloth bindings (gathered matter components
240 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
9780674079250, 9780674079267, 0674079256, 0674079264
4498737
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Birth and early training
Sources and Theories
S. Carlo alle Quatrro Fontane
The oratory of S. Filippo Neri and the Filomarino Altar
S. Ivo della Sapienza and S. Maria dei Sette Dolori
S. Giovanni in Laterano and S. Agnesse in Piazza Navona
Domestic architecture
The last phase
Influence and reputation
Notes on further reading
List of illustrations
Index