Volume 42, Number 3 · February 16, 1995
'The Seated Sublime'
By Joseph Connors
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michelangelo—The Cathedrals of Florence and Pavia, and St. Peter's, Rome 1994 The National Gallery, Washington, DC, December 18, 1994–March 19, 1995
an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, April 1–November 6,
The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture
edited by Henry A. Millon, edited by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Rizzoli, 731 pp., $85.00
The Architectural Drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and His Circle Vol. 1: Fortifications, Machines, and Festival Architecture
edited by Christoph L. Frommel, edited by Nicholas Adams
Architectural History Foundation/MIT Press, 274 pp., $95.00
San Pietro. Un progetto e un modello. Storia e restauro. Santa Maria del Fiore. Quattro modelli per il tamburo della cupola
edited by Pier Luigi Silvan
Bompiani, 142 pp., L 24,000 (paper)
Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur
by William E. Wallace
Cambridge University Press, 266 pp., $60.00
Michelangelo Architect
by Giulio Carlo Argan, by Bruno Contardi, translated by Marion L. Grayson
Abrams, 388 pp., $125.00
Leon Battista Alberti 10–December 11, 1994
catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, September, edited by Joseph Rykwert, edited by Anne Engel
Olivetti/Electa, 565 pp., L 65,000 (paper)
In Portrait of a Lady Isabelle Archer visits St. Peter's at vespers, and Henry James uses the occasion to provide an emotive description of the church:
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