Borromini
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TextPublication details: USA Harvard University Press 1989Description: 240: ill. 156 x 235 x 18.03mmISBN: - 9780674079267
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| ARCH/ALE The Timeless Way of Building | ARCH/BLU Borromini | ARCH/BUC Art: A World History | ARCH/COL Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design | ARCH/COR A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape and Other Essays |
In this lucid and fully illustrated account, Anthony Blunt charts Borromini's career and analyzes and assesses his art. Mr. Blunt tells of Borromini's training, relating his style to that of Bernini, under whom he worked, and to the architecture from which he learned, for example Michelangelo's. Borromini's patrons allowed him freedom to evolve his own ideas, and his originality and imagination in inventing new architectural forms become apparent as the author studies individual commissions. His imagination was apparently limitless, but his inventions evolved in terms of rigidly controlled geometry. It is this combination of revolutionary inventiveness and intellectual control that gives Borromini's work particular appeal in the twentieth century.
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