Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750
by Rudolf Wittkower
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This volume covers one of the greatest creative periods in the history of Italian art, looking at the progress of the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily. It focuses on the art and architecture of the Roman High Baroque period, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes.Tags
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Rudolf Wittkower was During-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, Chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Slade Professor at Cambridge.
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- Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750
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- Art and architecture in Italy: 1600 to 1750
- Original publication date
- 1958
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