Baroque Architecture

The "History of World Architecture" series offers scholarship, accessibility,xtensive illustration and international scope. This text examines therincipal 17th-century architectural themes - "capital city", "church" and "alace" - using the most famous examples of the period in Rome, Paris, Turinnd Versailles. A large section of the book is devoted to religiousrchitecture, analysing works by Della Porta, Maderno, Mansart, Borromini,ernini and Guarini, envisaged in both a local and European context. The booknds with a general survey of the diffusion of the Baroque in Europe, in itsarious local versions, up until the development of an "international style".Norberg-Schulz, Christian is the author of 'Baroque Architecture' with ISBN 9781904313106 and ISBN 1904313108.