Main entry:

Cresti, Carlo, author.

Title & Author:

Palazzi of Rome / text by Carlo Cresti and Claudio Rendina ; photographs by Massimo Listri ; translation from Italian: Janet Angelini.

Publication:

[Potsdam?] : H.f.ullmann, [2007]
©2007

Description:

398 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
The architecture of the Roman Palazzi: splendor and pride -- The Domus Aurea and the Farnese Dado: the custom of "thinking big" -- Palazzo, street and piazza -- Courtyards and gardens -- Sumptuous interiors: decorations, furnishings, and picture galleries -- The Roman Palazzo as described by landscape painters and travelers -- The palazzi of the third Rome -- Roman coats of arms: a note on heraldry -- Villas and Palazzi of Rome -- Casa dei Cavalieri di Rodi -- Palazzo and Palazzetto di Venezia -- Vatican place -- The Palazzi on the Campidoglio -- Palazzi Massimo -- Villa Farnesia -- Palazzo Mattei di Giove -- Palazzo Sacchetti -- Villa Madama -- Villa Medici -- Villa Giulia -- Palazzo Altemps -- Palazzo Ruspoli -- Palazzo Spada -- Quirinal Palace -- Palazzo Colonna -- Palazzo Odescalchi -- Palazzo Borghese -- Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi -- Villa Borghese -- Casino dell'Aurora Ludovisi -- Palazzo Barbarini -- Palazzo Altieri -- Palazzo Doria Pamphili -- Palazzo Pamphili -- Palazzo di Monte Giordano -- Palazzo Corsini -- Palazzo Chigi -- Villa of the Knights of Malta.

Summary:

"This illustrated volume presents the best known examples of the villas and palazzi of Rome in vivid photographs and in-depth descriptive portraits."--Cover page 4.

ISBN:

9783833136115 (paperback)
3833136111 (paperback)

Subject:

Art, Italian Italy Rome.
Mansions Italy Rome.
Mural painting and decoration, Italian Italy Rome.
Art italien Italie Rome.
Hôtels particuliers Italie Rome.
Art, Italian.
Buildings.
Mansions.
Mural painting and decoration, Italian.
Rome (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Italy Rome.

Added entries:

Rendina, Claudio, author.
Listri, Massimo, illustrator.
Angelini, Janet, translator.
Cresti, Carlo. Ville e palazzi di Roma.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273138
Call No.: BIB 206603
Status: Available