Bernini And the Art of Architecture

'''Bernini and the Art of Architecture' is particularly welcome because it synthesizes a large body of scholarly material into an accessible format. The author is skilled at unpacking Bernini's bag of tricks, and his text is matched by handsome illustrations, including original drawings and documents as well as Joseph S. Martin's photographs --which deserve special praise because they contrive to be evocative as well as informative. Throughout his long march across Bernini's career, Marder is in command of his subject even if he rarely allows himself the luxury of standing back from the case in hand to comment on the philosophy behind Bernini's architecture....a sumptuous book that places Bernini's buildings back at the center of his art.Marder, T. A. is the author of 'Bernini And the Art of Architecture' with ISBN 9780789201157 and ISBN 0789201151.