Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque architecture.(Book review)

The Architectural Review | November 1, 2008| | Copyright

By Jorg Martin Merz. New Haven & London:Yale University Press. 2008. [pounds sterling]45

This is the first modern comprehensive monograph on this marvellous architect, equal in genius lo Bernini and Borromini, though less well known. A beautifully illustrated work of massive documentary scholarship, it incorporates Anthony Blunt's draft for his own never completed book on Cortona. The importance to Cortona of his paper reconstruction of the ancient Roman Sanctuary to the Goddess of Fortune at Palestrina is stressed by Merz, author of a stimulating book of 2001 on ...

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