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The culture of architecture in Enlightenment Rome
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The culture of architecture in Enlightenment Rome

Author: Heather Hyde Minor
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
Series: Buildings, landscapes, and societies, 6.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Examines the nexus of learned culture and architecture in the 1730s to 1750s, including major building projects in Rome undertaken by the popes"--Provided by publisher.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Minor, Heather Hyde, 1971-
Culture of architecture in Enlightenment Rome.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010
(OCoLC)742569151
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Heather Hyde Minor
ISBN: 9780271035642 0271035641
OCLC Number: 367422757
Notes: Series title and number from book jacket.
Description: xxiv, 295 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Series Title: Buildings, landscapes, and societies, 6.
Responsibility: Heather Hyde Minor.

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Beginning in the 1730s, this title 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  Read more...

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"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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