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Baroque
Patrick Haughey, ed.
Virginia Nolan, ed.

Contents:

Dedicatory Preface
Stanford Anderson

Editorial Foreword : The Necessity to Embrace
Erika Naginski

Views and Descriptions

Leonardo Bufalini’s Orthogonal Roma (1551)
David Friedman with Paul Schlapobersky

Editorial Foreword : The Necessity to Embrace
Carla Keyvanian

Unmasking Noto: The Baroque of Reconciliation
Luca Scarfi

Documenting Buildings in the Waqf System
Nasser Rabbat

Elements and Motifs

Pilaster Play
Mark Jarzombek

A Return to St. Peter’s: The Life of a Fragment
Sarah McPhee

Thoughts on the Ellipse: Borromini’s Staircase for the Palazzo Barberini
Noah Resnick

Ordering the Orders: Claude Perrault’s Ordonnance and the Eastern Colonnade of the Louvre
Lucia Allais

Words and Works

Bernini’s Medusa and the History of Art
Patrick Haughey

Order and Things: Comenius’s Orbis Pictus and Baroque Representation
Deborah Kully

Fictive and Real Architecture: A Preliminary Drawing for Andrea Pozzo’s Vault Fresco at Sant’Ignazio, Rome
Katherine Wheeler

A Renaissance Drawing at MIT
Gary Van Zante and Richard Tuttle

Origins and Influences

Reflections on the Ground Rules of the Baroque
Werner Oechslin (translated by Mark Jarzombek)

Benjamin’s Baroque
Michael Osman

Frank Lloyd Wright and Michelangelo
Hilary Ballon

Why I Love Paul Hofer
Aldo Rossi (introduced by Mark Jarzonmbek and translated by David Friedman)

 

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