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Art and architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750

by Rudolf Wittkower

This volume covers one of the greatest creative periods in the history of Italian art, looking at the progress of the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily. It focuses on the art and architecture of the Roman High Baroque period, when Bernini, Borrowmini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes.

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