| Description |
159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Piazzas as urban backdrops -- Baroque churches -- Staircases -- Theatres -- The Baroque garden -- Rome: the birth of Baroque -- Bernini the architect -- Francesco Borromini -- Sant'lvo ala Sapienza -- Baroque in Italy -- Baldassare Longhena -- Santa Maria della Salute -- Guarino Guarini -- San Lorenzo -- Naples -- Lecce -- Sicily -- The spread of Baroque -- France -- Saint-Louis-des-Invalides -- Hot̂els particuliers -- The French garden -- Versailles -- Central Europe -- Russian Baroque -- England -- Christopher Wren: churches -- St Paul's Cathedral -- The Royal hospital -- Chatsworth House -- Spain -- Portugal -- From Baroque to Rococo -- Theatres -- Libraries -- Exoticism -- Rococo in Italy -- Rome: scenographic city architecture -- The Trevi fountain -- Turin: a European capital -- The Basilica di Superga -- Naples -- The Royal Palace of Caserta -- Late Baroque Sicily -- Noto Cathedral -- The spread of Rococo -- The Hapsburg empire: a state art -- Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach -- Belvedere Palace -- The Abbeys of Jacob Prandthauer -- Melk Abbey -- Prague and Moravia -- Church of St Nicholas -- Plague Columns -- Berlin: a new capital -- Sanssouci -- Dresden: city of wonders -- The Zwinger Palace -- The Triumph of Rococo: Bavaria -- The Asam Brothers -- St John Nepomuceno -- The imperial residence -- Augustusburg -- Balthasar Neumann -- The Wur̈zburg residence -- St Petersburg: the invention of a capital -- The Peterhof Palace -- Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli -- Catherine Palace -- England -- Portugal -- Spain -- The Transparente altarpiece -- Latin America |
| Subject |
Architecture, Baroque -- History.
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Architecture, Baroque.
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| Author |
Tarabra, Daniela.
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| ISBN |
3791345958 |
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9783791345956 |
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