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Baroque Architecture Bibliography
Joseph Connors
HAA 165x and GSD HIS 004361 (Spring 2013)
The emphasis here is on works in English, though not exclusively.
For Bernini, Borromini and Piranesi see separate bibliographies.
Surveys of Baroque Architecture
Henry Millon, ed., The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750 (cat.), Milan, 1999
Anthony Blunt, ed., Baroque & Rococo: Architecture and Decoration, New York, 1978
Henry Millon, Baroque and Rococo Architecture, New York, 1967
Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750 (Pelican History of Art), many paperback editions from 1958 to 1982, latest hardcover edition in 3 vols., ed. J. Connors and J. Montagu, 1999
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450-1800, Chicago, 1995
Daniela Del Pesco, L’architettura del Seicento, Turin, 1998
Aurora Scotti Tosini, Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il Seicento, 2 vols., Milan, 2003
Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence (cat.), ed. Michael Snodin and Nigel Llewellyn, with Joanna Norman, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2009
Helen Hills, ed., Rethinking the Baroque, Farnham and Burlington VT, 2011
Gauvin Bailey, Baroque and Rococo, New York and London, 2012
Fréderique Lemerele and Yves Pauwels, Baroque Architecture 1600-1750, Paris: Flammarion, 2008
Rome General Urbanism and Archeology
Erik Iversen, Obelisks in Exile, vol. I: The Obelisks of Rome, Copenhagen, 1968, ch. 1 on Sixtus V and 2 on Innocent X
Torgil Magnuson, Rome in the Age of Bernini, 2 vols., Stockholm, 1982 and 1986
Tod Marder, Bernini and the Art of Architecture, New York, 1998
Richard Krautheimer, The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655-1677, Princeton, 1985
Jörg Martin Merz, Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture, New Haven and London, 2008
Patricia Waddy, Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan, New York, 1990
Patricia Waddy, “Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings,” in Stefanie Walker and Frederick Hammond, eds., Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco (cat.), New Haven and London, 1999, pp. 21-37
John Pinto, The Trevi Fountain, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 28-63
John Pinto, “Architecture and Urbanism,” in Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, exhib. cat., ed. Edgar Peters Bowron and Joseph Rishel, Phailadelphia, 2000, pp. 113-55
John Pinto, Speaking Ruins: Piranesi, Architects, and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome, Ann Arbor, 2012
Barbara Uppenkamp and Ben van Beneden, with Piet Lombaerde, Palazzo Rubens: The Master as Architect (cat.), Antwerp, 2011
Hellmut Hager, ed., Architectural Fantasy and Reality: Drawings from the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome Concorsi Clementini 1700-1750, exhib. cat., 1982
Peter Lukehart, ed., The Accademia Seminars: The Accademia di San Luca in Rome, c. 1590-1635 (CASVA Seminar Papers 2), New Haven and London, 2009
Central Italy
Alice Jarrard, “The Escalation of Ceremony and Ducal Staircases in Italy, 1560-1680,” Annali di architettura, 8, 1996, pp. 159-78
Alice Jarrard, Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-centurhy Europe: Court Ritual in Modena, Rome, and Paris, New York and Cambridge, 2003
Venice
Andrew Hopkins, Baldassare Longhena and Venetian Baroque Architecture, New Haven and London, 2012
Piedmont
Richard Pommer, Eighteenth-Century Architecture in Piedmont: The Open Structures of Juvarra, Alfieri, & Vittone, New York and London, 1967
Martha Pollak, Turin 1564-1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital, Chicago and London, 1991
H. A. Meek, Guarino Guarini and His Architecture, New Haven and London, 1988
John Beldon Scott, Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin, Chicago and London, 2003
Naples
Anthony Blunt, Neapolitan Baroque and Rococo Architecture, London, 1975.
Alastair Ward, The Architecture of Ferdinando Sanfelice, New York and London, 1988 (Cambridge Ph.D. thesis 1979)
Gaetana Cantone, Napoli barocca e Cosimo Fanzago, Naples, 1984
Thomas Willette and Maria Ann Conelli, “The Tribune Vault of the Gesù Nuovo in Naples: Stanzione’s Fresco and the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception,” Ricerche sul ‘600 napoletano, Milan, 1989, pp. 169-213
Sabina De Cavi, Architecture and Royal Presence: Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592–1627), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
Helen Hills, “Cities and Virgins: Female Aristocratic Convents in Early Modern Naples and Palermo,” Oxford Art Journal, 22.1, 1999, pp. 29-54
Helen Hills, Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents, Oxford, 2004
Cesare de Seta, “The Architecture of Naples in the Eighteenth Century,” in Henry Millon, ed., Circa 1700: Architecture in Europe and the Americas (Studies in the History of Art, 66), New Haven and London, 2005, pp. 17-36
J. Nicholas Napoli, “Artists, Patrons, and Trust in Seventeenth-Century Naples: The Case of the Certosa di San Martino,” California Italian Studies (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6jn0b7tz), 3.1, 2012, pp. 1-31
Sicily
Anthony Blunt, Sicilian Baroque, London,
Stephen Tobriner, The Genesis of Noto, London,
Stephen Tobriner, “La Casa Baraccata: Earthquake-resistant Construction in 18th-Century Calabria,” JSAH, XLII, 1983, pp. 131-38
Stephen Tobriner, “Safety and Reconstruction of Noto after the Sicilian Earthquake of 1693--The Eighteenth-Century Context,” in Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Englightenment, ed. Alessa Johns, New York and London, 1999, pp. 49-75
Stephen Tobriner, “Rosario Gagliardi and the Development of the Sicilian Tower Facade,” in Annali del Barocco in Sicilia. Rosario Gagliardi e l’architettura barocca in Italia e in Europa, 3, 1996, pp. 140-55
Helen Hills, “Iconography and Ideology: Aristocracy, Immaculacy and Virginity in Seventeenth-Century Palermo,” Oxford Art Journal, 17.2, 1994, pp. 16-31
Jorge Silvetti, ed., Architectural and Urban Environments of Sicily, 2 vols., 1992
Maria Giuffrè, The Baroque Architecture of Sicily, London, 2007
Fortifications
Francesco de’ Marchi, Della architettvra militare del capitano Francesco de Marchi : ...libri quattro : nelli qvali si descrivono li veri modi del fortificare, che si vsa a' tempi moderni : con un breve et utile trattato nel quale si dimostrano li modi del fabricar l'artigliaria, & la pratica di adoperarla, da quelli che hanno carico di essa,Brescia : Appresso Gio. Battista, & Antonio Bozzoli fratelli, 1603
Martha Pollak, Cities at War in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge, 2010
England
John Summerson, Inigo Jones, Harmondsworth, 1966
Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition, New Haven and London, 2007
Christy Anderson, Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition, Cambridge and New York, 2007
Per Palme, Triumph of Peace: A Study of the Whitehall Banqueting House (Figura 8), Stockholm, 1956
Gordon Higgott, “‘Varying with reason’: Inigo Jones’s Theory of Design,” Architectural History, 35, 1992, pp. 51-77
Margaret Whinney, Wren, London, 1971
Kerry Downes, Hawksmoor, London, 1970, paperback 1996
Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey, Hawkmoor’s London Churches: Architecture and Theology, Chicago, 2000
Vaughan Hart, Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders, New Haven and London, 2002
John Bold, Greenwich: An Architectural History of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the Queen’s House, New Haven and London, 2000
The Netherlands
Katharine Fremantle, The Baroque Town Hall of, Utrecht, 1959
Jacob van Campen. Het klassieke ideal in de Gouden Eeuw, ed. Jacobine Huisken, Koen Ottenheym, Gary Schwartz, Amsterdam, 1995
Koen Ottenheym, “The Architecture and Building History of the Mauritshuis, 1633-1644,” in Quentin Buvelot, ed., Mauritshuis: The Building, The Hague and Zwolle, 2014, pp. 19-53
Paris
Anthony Sutcliffe, Paris: An Architectural History, New Haven and London, 1993
Hilary Ballon, The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanism, Cambridge MA and London, 1991
Hilary Ballon, Louis Le Vau: Mazarin’s Collège, Colbert’s Revenge, Princeton, 1999
Sara Galletti, Marie de Medicis et le Palais du Luxembourg, 1611-1642, Paris, 2012
Allan Braham and Peter Smith, François Mansart, 2 vols., London, 1973
François Mansart. Le genie de l’architecture, ed. Jean-Pierre Babelon and Claude Mignot, Paris, 1998
Richard Cleary, The Place Royal and Urban Design in the Ancien Régime, Cambridge, 1999
Places des Victoires: Histoire, architecture, société, ed. Isabelle Dubois, Alexandre Gady, Handrik Ziegler, with preface by Claude Mignot, Paris, 2003
Rochelle Ziskin, The Place Vendôme: Architecture and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Cambridge, 1999
Robert Berger, A Royal Passion: Louis XIV as Patron of Architecture, Cambridge, 1994
Robert Berger, The Palace of the Sun: The Louvre of Louis XIV, University Park PA, 1993
Wolfgang Herrmann, The Theory of Claude Perrault, London, 1973
Antoine Picon, Claude Perrault, 1613-1688 ou la curiosité d’un classique, Paris, 1988
Sara Galletti, Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis, 1611-1631, Paris, 2012
Vaux Le Vicomte and Versailles
Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Vaux le Vicomte, Paris, 1997
Guy Walton, Louis XIV’s Versailles, Chicago, 1986
Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Versailles, NY, 1991
Peter Burke, The Fabrication of Louis XIV, New Haven and London, 1992
Thierry Mariage, The World of André Le Nôtre (1990), trans. Graham Larkin, Philadelphia, 1999
Robert Berger, A Royal Passion: Louis XIV as Patron of Architecture, Cambridge, 1994
Spain
Jesus Escobar, The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid, Cambridge, 2003
Juan Nicolau Castro, Narciso Tomé arquitecto / escultor 1694-1742, Madrid, 2009
Richard Kagan, with Fernando Marias, Urban Images of the Hispanic World 1493-1793, New Haven and London, 2000
Portugal
Paulo Varela Gomes, Arquitectura, Religião e Política em Portugal no Século XVII. A Planta Centralizada, Porto, 2001
George Kubler, Portuguese Plain Architecture Between Spices and Diamonds 1521-1706, Middletown CT, 1972
Angela Delaforce, Art and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Portugal, Cambridge, 2002
Angela Delaforce, “Lisbon, ‘This New Rome’: Dom João V of Portugal and Relations between Rome and Lisbon, in Jay Levenson, ed., The Age of the Baroque in Portugal (cat.), New Haven and London, 1993, pp. 49-79
Robert Smith, Nicolau Nasoni arquitecto do Porto, Lisbon, 1966
Niccolò Nasoni (1691-1773). Un artista italiano a Oporto (cat.), Florence, 1991
Walter Rossa, “Lisbon’s Waterfront Image as an Allegory of Baroque Urban Aesthetics,” in Henry Millon, ed., Circa 1700: Architecture in Europe and the Americas (Studies in the History of Art, 66), New Haven and London, 2005, pp. 161-85
Germany, Austria, Bohemia
Esther/Gordon Dotson, J.B. Fischer von Erlach: Architecture as Theater in the Baroque Era, New Haven and London, 2012
Hellmut Lorenz, Domenico Martinelli und die österreichische Barockarchitektur, Vienna, 1991 (Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenscahften)
Hellmut Hager, “Inquiries into Bernini’s Architectural Legacy,” Quaderni dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Architettura, N.S. 15-20, 1990-92, pp. 693-706
Costanza Caraffa, Gaetano Chiaveri (1689-1770) architetto romano della Hofkirche di Dresda (Studi della Bibliotheca Hertziana, 1), Milan, 2006
Michael Young, Santini-Aichel’s Design for the Convent of the Cistercian Monastery at Plasy in Western Bohemia, New York, 1994
Dirk De Meyer, Johann Santini Aichel: Architectuur en ambiguïteit, Eindhoven, 1997
Helmut Lorenz, “’Vienna Gloriosa’: Architectural Trends and Patrons,” in Henry Millon, ed., Circa 1700: Architecture in Europe and the Americas (Studies in the History of Art, 66), New Haven and London, 2005, pp. 47-63
Friedrich Polleross, “ ‘Wien wird mit gleichem Recht Neu=Rom gennant, als vormals Constantinopel’: Geschichte als Mythos am Kaiserhof um 1700,” Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien, 11, 2009, pp. 102-27
Poland
Gil Smith, “Pompeo Ferrari: A Disciple of Carlo Fontana in Poland,” An Architectural Progress in the Renaissance and Baroque...Essays Presented to Hellmut Hager (Papers in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University, 8), eds. H. Millon and S. Munshower, University Park, 1992, pp. 764-99
Stanislaw Mossakowski, Tilman van Gameren. Leben und Werk, Berlin, 1994
Tilman van Gameren. A Dutch Architect to the Polish Court (cat.), Amsterdam, 2002
Sweden
Mårten Snickare, ed., Tessin. Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Royal Architect and Visionary, Stockholm, 2002
Mårten Snickare, “The Construction of Autocracy: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and the Architecture of Stockholm,” in Henry Millon, ed., Circa 1700: Architecture in Europe and the Americas (Studies in the History of Art, 66), New Haven and London, 2005, pp. 65-77
Russia
James Cracraft, The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture, Chicago and London, 1988
Dmitry Shvidkovsky, “The Founding of Saint Petersburg and the History of Russian Architecture,” in Henry Millon, ed., Circa 1700: Architecture in Europe and the Americas (Studies in the History of Art, 66), New Haven and London, 2005, pp. 79-97
Dmitry Shvidkovsky, St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars, New York, London, Paris, 1996
Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Russian Architecture and the West, New Haven and London, 2007
Piranesi
John Wilton-Ely, “Piranesian Symbols on the Aventine,” Apollo, CIII, March 1976, pp. 214-27
John Wilton-Ely, The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, London, 1978
John Pinto, Speaking Ruins: Piranesi, Architects, and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome, Ann Arbor, 2012
Heather Hyde Minor, Piranesi’s Lost Words, University Park PA, 2015
Mario Bevilacqua, Heather Hyde Minor, Fabio Barry, eds., The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G. B. Piranesi, Ann Arbor MI, 2006