Peter Murray guides the reader from the earliest revivals of the Roman style to the villas of Palladio and Vignola. Tracing the innovations of the brilliant architects who worked for ambitious and demanding patrons, he explains, for example, how Brunelleschi-solving a century-old problem-raised the great dome over the cathedral of Florence. What Brunelleschi began, Alberti, Bramante, Raphael, Romano, Michelangelo, Sansovino, and others continued: an eloquent composing of space by order and proportion.

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