The Genius in the Design: Bernini,Borromini,and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome - Hardcover

Morrissey, Jake

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071563383X ISBN 13: 9780715633830

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

The Genius in the Design is the true story of the great rivalry between two extraordinary men, the seventeenth-century architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, and how their antagonism changed the city of Rome and created the Baroque. Talented, driven, and ambitious, each man spent his career trying to outdo the other to become the greatest architect of his time. Each, in his turn, succeeded, only to be brought down by the machinations of the other. In the end, one became the most lionized artist of his time and died a rich, happy family man. The other, consumed by internal demons, committed suicide. This book is the story of their hostility. Part history, part biography, part adventure story, The Genius in the Design is narrative non-fiction that reads like a novel and brings to vivid life the struggle between two giants of architecture, so different in outlook, so similar in purpose.

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Review

'Morrissey is no disinterested aesthete...He also knows that architecture can speak to us about more than itself' -- Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Jake Morrissey has studied and written about architecture for 20 years. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and dozens of other publications and books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071563383X
• ISBN 13: 9780715633830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288