This study considers the urban development of Rome in the mid- seventeenth century as conceived and guided by the Chigi pope, Alexander VII. Focusing on discrete zones within the city, including the Quirinal, the Piazza del Popolo, Piazza S. Marco, the Corso, and the Vatican, Dorothy Metzger Habel suggests that Alexander VII masterminded a new conceptualization of the city, which was grounded in the architectural formulae of late antique Roman Asia. Using these principles, Habel argues, architects and builders were ...
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This study considers the urban development of Rome in the mid- seventeenth century as conceived and guided by the Chigi pope, Alexander VII. Focusing on discrete zones within the city, including the Quirinal, the Piazza del Popolo, Piazza S. Marco, the Corso, and the Vatican, Dorothy Metzger Habel suggests that Alexander VII masterminded a new conceptualization of the city, which was grounded in the architectural formulae of late antique Roman Asia. Using these principles, Habel argues, architects and builders were sensitized to the physical characteristics of particular sites and drew relationships between buildings within the urban fabric. These planning methods contributed formally and iconographically to the architectural future of Rome. Including an in-depth analysis of all available evidence - archival sources, working and presentational drawings, and the physical fabric of key monuments and their situation within the topography of Rome - Habel's book offers a new and innovative model for histories of urban architecture and planning.
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Acceptable. Ex-library. Pages are in good condition and binding is strong. Missing dust jacket. Former Library Book with the usual library marks, stickers and stamps.
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Good in Good dust jacket. 0521772648. Xxi, 424 pages. Notes, bibliography, index. 223 illustrations. Small quarto. Blue dust jacket with colour photo of St. Peter's. DJ has minor shelf wear, bit of rubbing at top of spine. Book itself is clean and unmarked. Two pages with down turned corner. Last two pages of the index have a slight publisher's flaw at top corner, paper not cut correctly and the slight bit of excess is crumpled. Nice copy. Considers the urban development of Rome in the mid-seventeenth century as conceived and guided by Alexander VII. Includes the Quirinal, Piazza del Popolo, Pizza S. Marco, the Corso and the Vatican. Habel suggests that Alexander VII masterminded a new conceptualization of the city, grunded in the architecture of the late antique Roman Asia.; 4to 11"-13" tall; 424 pages.
