At first glance, Borromini's architecture is a flight of Baroque fantasy, the product of limitless imagination. A closer look reveals an almost ruthlessly logical geometry underlying his creation. Blunt shows how the combination of revolutionary inventiveness and intellectual control gives Borromini's work its great appeal.
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At first glance, Borromini's architecture is a flight of Baroque fantasy, the product of limitless imagination. A closer look reveals an almost ruthlessly logical geometry underlying his creation. Blunt shows how the combination of revolutionary inventiveness and intellectual control gives Borromini's work its great appeal.
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VG/Good+ (ex-libris w/ embossed stamp to front endpaper. light wear to board edges, corners; spine ends crinkled. light foxing to textblock edges. dustjacket has rubbed edge-wear, scuffs, scratches; back lower corner harshly rubbed & torn w/ veener... Brown boards w/ gilt spine printing; decorative endpapers; 240 pp.; 150 bw figures. glossy pictorial dustjacket. A study of the full breadth of Baroque architecture Borromini's career; Well illustrated.
