Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993
The City-Planner Pope
By Garry Wills
Roma Sisto Quinto: arte, architetture e città fra rinascemento e barocco
edited by Mario Bevilacqua et al.
Edizioni de Luca, 63 pp., L 15,000
Le arti nelle Marche al tempo di Sisto V
edited by Paolo Dal Poggetto
Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno, 463 pp., L 50,000
I pittori di Sisto V
by Alessandro Zuccari
Fratelli Palombi Editori, 173 pp., L 85,000
Sisto V: Architetture per la città
edited by Maria Piera Sette, edited by Simona Benedetti
Multigrafica Editrice, 319 pp., L 50,000 (paper)
La pianta di Roma al tempo di Sisto V (1585–1590)
edited by Gianfranco Spagnesi et al.
Multigrafica Editrice, 53, 24 detached plats pp., L 90,000
Of the five major exhibits concurrent in Rome this spring, the best (and the best attended) was announced by a huge red banner hung on the Palazzo Venezia: Roma Sisto Quinto. It is an ambiguous title. How should one connect its terms? Rome (and) Pope Sixtus V? Or Rome (was) Sixtus V? Or even: Rome (is) Sixtus V? The latter formulations seem extreme for a pope who reigned only five years toward the end of the sixteenth century (1585–1590). But the show prompts large claims.[1]
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