ROMAN BAROQUE

The Baroque, for many the most thrilling architectural style ever created, was born in Rome and reached its apogee in the work of th ree geniuses born in the 1590's - Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona. Perhaps the greatest student of the style was Anthony Bl unt, who spent a lifetime studying and teaching the work of these architects and their importance to us now. This elegant and concis e introduction to the style and its flowering in Rome was first published in an anthology of essays in 1978, not long before Blunt d ied, and...[Read more]