Circa 1700
Subtitle: architecture in Europe and the Americas
By: edited by Henry A. Millon.
Contributors: Millon, Henry A.
Series: Studies in the history of art ;; 66.; Symposium papers ;; 43 / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts; Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ;; 66.; Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.).; 43.
Publisher: National Gallery of Art; distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]; New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Architecture, Baroque -- Congresses.; City planning -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of a symposium held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Sept. 15-16, 2000.
Table of contents: value: The architecture of Naples in the eighteenth century / Cesare De Seta; value: Middle-class Rome: from the baroque city to the European capital / Elisa Debenedetti; value: "Vienna gloriosa": architectural trends and patrons / Hellmut Lorenz; value: The construction of autocracy: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and the architecture of Stockholm / Mårten Snickare; value: The founding of Saint Petersburg and the history of Russian architecture / Dmitry Shvidkovsky; value: Wren, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, and Archer: the search for an English baroque / Giles Worsley; value: Amsterdam 1700: urban space and public buildings / Konrad A. Ottenheym; value: From Madrid to Cádiz: the last baroque cathedral for the new economic capital of Spain / Fernando Marías; value: Lisbon's waterfront image as an allegory of baroque urban aesthetics / Walter Rossa; value: Robert de Villeneuve and the representation of Quebec City at the end of the seventeenth century / Marc Grignon; value: From fountain to bridge: baroque projects and Hispanism in Lima / Francisco Stastny.