curran brian ed (2 resultados)

Original publisher's brown paper covered boards, white spine, pictorial dustjacket, 4to: 192pp., very richly illustrated, notes, bibliography, glossary, chronology, index.

Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering, vi, 223 pp., illustrations, some in color. Contents Include: Renaissance ideas of space: Introduction / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Cosmological space beteeen Copernicus and Newton / Hilary Gatti -- "The noble sense of the curve" from antiquity through Borromini / Livio Pestilli -- Utopian cities in Cinquecento Italy: games of space and knowledge / Lina Bolzoni -- Other articles: Locating the Ustrinum of Augustus / Carlos F. Norena -- The visual language of Nero's Harbor Sestertii / Naomi A. Weiss -- A Constantinian image program in Rome rediscovered: the late antique megalographia from the so-called Domus Faustae / Susanna McFadden -- Splitting the core: the transverse wall at the Basilica of San Paolo in Rome / Nicola Camerlenghi -- Questions of identity: Alexander VII, Carlo Rainaldi, and the temporary facade at Palazzo Farnese for Queen Christina of Sweden / Margaret A. Kuntz -- Prince Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (1648-1709) and the display of art in the Palazzo al Collegio Romano, Rome / Stephanie C. Leone -- Reports from the American Academy in Rome: Research in the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2011-2013). VG (minimal signs of shelf wear and rubbing, otherwise in excellent condition).