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Routledge
This volume forms part of the 2 volume facimile Architecture of the Renaissance. This set considers the effect of the new artistic culture on the changes that took place in the fifteenth century Italian cities and then throughout Europe.
Volume I, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. The inventors of the new architecture, 2. Towards the ideal city, 3. Beginning and end of the 'third style', 4.Urban changes in the sixteenth century, Notes, Volume II, 5. The crisis of sensibility, 6. The grand siècle, 7. Court classicism and bourgeois classicism in the growth of the modern city, Conclusion: 1750—the turning-point, Notes, Bibliographical note, Index
Biography
Leonardo Benevolo
