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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Softcover. Condition: near fine. Slight rubbing at corners; binding tight. Octavo; 184 pp. Cover illustration: Pinturicchio, St. Catherine Debates the Scholars of Alexandria, Borgia Apartment, Vatican. Copiously illustrated with color plates, b/w photos, drawn building plans. Chapter headings include: Patronage and Popes: Saints or Sinners?; Urbanism: Rotting Cadavers and the New Jerusalem; Churches: Harmony of the Spheres and Construction Chaos; Palaces: Magnificence and Mayhem; Altarpieces: Spirit and Matter; Chapel Decoration: Space, Time, and Eternity; Halls of State: Arts of Power; 1600 and Beyond. Binding sound; clean text; no markings. *** From the jacket notes: "The city of Rome as we know it is largely the creation of the Renaissance, rebuilt from a neglected medieval town under the patronage of the popes and clergy on the one hand and the Roman nobility on the other. Between them they commissioned extraordinary works of art and architecture, and the city was restructured in one of the greatest urban development projects in history. Streets, piazzas, boulevards, and vistas were built, creating a new Rome in the image of an ideal heavenly and secular city. Rome itself became a work of art.". …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover without jacket. Condition: VG. Cover has mild shelf wear head and tail of spine; spine slightly faded; corners rubbed. Octavo; 536 pp. Blue cloth binding; silver lettering front cover and spine. Illustrated with hundreds of glossy b/w plates, and numerous plans of individual buildings and towns. This is a pictorial survey of architecture, from antiquity to modern times. It was conceived as a companion for H. W. Janson's Key Monuments of the History of Art but it has become an important reference work on its own. Its section headings are I. The Ancient World; II. Asia and America; III. The Middle Ages; IV. The Renaissance; V. The Modern World. Each section has a list of the illustrations therein, individually identified and with bibliographical references. Text also includes Index of Persons and Places, and List of Abbreviated Sources. Binding is sound; clean text, no markings. This is an invaluable reference for anyone learning the history of architecture.…

Hard. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Second Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams - Prentice-Hall, 1972. Large, thick 4to., 9 1/2" x 12", 680pp., over 1100 ilustrations. Very good, clean, binding strong in splash stained dust jacket.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. Revised Edition. A Guideto Pronunciation. Map. A Comparative Time table. Chronological Tables. Generously Illustrated. End Notes. Bibliography. Index. 532pp. Gigt inscription on f.e.p. Maroon cloth boards with bright gilt title on spine and front board. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Hardcover. …