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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 |
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| 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. |
Abstract:
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 substance of Rome.
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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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