design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome

Morrissey, Jake

ISBN 10: 071563383X / ISBN 13: 9780715633830

Published by Duckworth, Great Britain, 2005

About this Item

Hardcover. A near fine copy with a page folded. The dust jacket is fine. Notes, index, bibliography 320 pages. This well researched volume is an excellent introduction to the Baroque Period.

Seller Inventory # 009059

Bibliographic Details

• Title: design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome
• Publisher: Duckworth, Great Britain
• Publication Date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 071563383X
• ISBN 13: 9780715633830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, The Genius in the Design is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process, created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today.

About the Author

Jake Morrissey has studied and written about architecture for twenty years. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and dozens of other publications and books. He is the author of the novel A Weekend at Blenheim and lives near New York City.