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Bibliographic Details

Title

THE PAPACY AND THE ART OF REFORM IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ROME: GREGORY XIII'S TOWER OF THE WINDS IN THE VATICAN

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521624371

ISBN 13

9780521624374

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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11/2015

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Synopsis

From his election in 1572 to his death in 1585, Pope Gregory XIII spent a great deal of money on the building and restoration of Rome's streets, churches and public monuments. One major monument, the three-story apartment rising from the Vatican Palace called the Tower of the Winds, was built to celebrate the most famous achievement of Gregory's papacy, the calendar reform. Its innovations in architecture and decoration and its wider religious and political purpose are the subject of this book.

About the Author

Joseph Connors, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, was Director of Villa I Tatti from 2002 to 2010.

Irving Lavin, the Dean of living Bernini scholars, is a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

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