The Art of Renaissance Rome 1400-1600

Softcover. Condition: near fine. Slight rubbing at corners; binding tight. Octavo; 184 pp. Cover illustration: Pinturicchio, St. Catherine Debates the Scholars of Alexandria, Borgia Apartment, Vatican. Copiously illustrated with color plates, b/w photos, drawn building plans. Chapter headings include: Patronage and Popes: Saints or Sinners?; Urbanism: Rotting Cadavers and the New Jerusalem; Churches: Harmony of the Spheres and Construction Chaos; Palaces: Magnificence and Mayhem; Altarpieces: Spirit and Matter; Chapel Decoration: Space, Time, and Eternity; Halls of State: Arts of Power; 1600 and Beyond. Binding sound; clean text; no markings. *** From the jacket notes: "The city of Rome as we know it is largely the creation of the Renaissance, rebuilt from a neglected medieval town under the patronage of the popes and clergy on the one hand and the Roman nobility on the other. Between them they commissioned extraordinary works of art and architecture, and the city was restructured in one of the greatest urban development projects in history. Streets, piazzas, boulevards, and vistas were built, creating a new Rome in the image of an ideal heavenly and secular city. Rome itself became a work of art.".