TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blunt, Anthony
TI  - Borromini
SN  - 9780674079267
U1  - VSCL 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - USA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Architectural firms
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Baroque architecture
KW  - Francesco Borromini
N1  - 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
ER  -