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"When all of Rome was under construction" : the building process in baroque Rome
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"Analyzes the politics and economics of architecture and the building process in seventeenth-century Rome. Explores topics ranging from the financing of construction to the availability of material...
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- Creator
- Dorothy Metzger Habel
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- English
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- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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- 232 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780271055732, 0271055731
- OCLC
- ocn812614316
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-223) and index.
- The urban redevelopment of Piazza Colonna I : "senza spesa ne aggravare alcuno" -- The urban redevelopment of Piazza Colonna II : "il negotio restava aggiustato" -- The repercussions of building Piazza S. Pietro : "in tempo che tutta Roma era in fabrica" -- Lorenzo Pizzatti and his "Roza riforma" : a pavonazzo speaks up "tutto per ben publico."
Subjects
- Alexander VII, Pope, 1599-1667.
- Plazas -- Italy -- Rome -- Design and construction -- History -- 17th century.
- City planning -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 17th century.
- Architecture and state -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 17th century.
- Piazza Colonna (Rome, Italy) -- History -- 17th century.
- Piazza San Pietro (Vatican City) -- History -- 17th century.