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Heather Hyde Minor - The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome - 9780271035642 - V9780271035642
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The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome

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Description for The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome Hardback. Series: Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 30 colour, 114 b&w illustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1596.
Beginning in the 1730s, Heather Minor tells us, Rome began to resemble one huge construction site, with a series of ambitious and expensive new building campaigns that transformed the face and substance of the city. From renovations of the Santa Maria Maggiore and San Giovanni in Laterano and the restoration of the Arch of Constantine to the creation of the Capitoline Museum and the establishment of the papacy's Calcografia, the push for reform not only renewed papal and Church identity but also revived Italian culture as a whole. Based on extensive archival research and full of fascinating stories about the often stormy theological and intellectual debates central to the attempts at reform, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome brings to life the personalities of architects, theologians, and intellectuals and links the extensive architectural programs with powerful shifts in the intellectual climate of the time.

Product Details

Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies Series
Condition
New
Weight
1596g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271035642
SKU
V9780271035642
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About Heather Hyde Minor
Heather Hyde Minor is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the co-editor of The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G. B. Piranesi (2006).

Reviews for The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome
This is a readable, amiable narrative bursting with information relating to an impressive range of subjects. Minor's laudable determination to relate architecture to the world unfolding around it means that the level of contextual scene-setting goes far beyond what one normally encounters in books of this sort. . . . In the end, her book succeeds at the difficult task of offering both an engaging entry point for scholars new to the topic and a stimulating synthetic interpretation for those already involved with it. -Richard Wittman, CAA Reviews Filled with discussions of taste, doctrine, ecclesiastical history, familial strife, archaeology, and book history. . . . Minor has arrayed a rich feast of information around the architecture of papal Rome in the eighteenth century. She brilliantly resurrects the aspirant ambitions of popes, scholars, and architects that built in order to keep Rome a centre of art and learning. -Robin Thomas, EAHN Newsletter [The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome] has a very specific subject and is argued with great clarity: it deals with seven architectural commissions ordered by the popes Clement XII Corsini (reg. 1730-40) and Benedict XIV Lambertini (reg. 1740-58), the expression of a cultural flowering that related to the reformist currents of Roman intellectual society of the day. . . . . [Hyde Minor has] introduced new critical boundaries for the understanding of the cultural context of eighteenth-century Roman architecture. -Tommaso Manfredi, The Burlington Magazine This study makes a considerable contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century architecture in its cultural and intellectual context. -Jeffrey Collins, Bard Graduate Center

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