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The Genius in the Design

by Jake Morrissey
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"The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography." —Booklist
The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, The Genius in the Design is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process, created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today.
"Entertaining. . . . Morrissey finely renders the intense rivalry between these two artists." —Publishers Weekly
"With clear prose and splendid touches of drama, history and architecture are both brought wonderfully to life." —Ross King, New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
"Engrossing." —Matthew Pearl, of The Dante Club
"Genius in the Design reveals the dark side of 17th Century Italy with sparkling anecdotes and you-are-there immediacy" —Laurence Bergreen, author of Over the Edge of the World
"Fascinating . . . a scintillating introduction to the Baroque." —Iain Pears, New York Times bestselling author An Instance of the Fingerpost
"Page-turning reading." —Seattle Times Book Review
"Morrissey illuminates the contrast between the celebrated Bernini and the anguished Borromini." —Boston Globe
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Publisher: HarperCollins

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  • ISBN: 9780061873133
  • Release date: November 21, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9780061873133
  • Release date: November 21, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9780061873133
  • File size: 522 KB
  • Release date: November 21, 2023
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Architecture Biography & Autobiography History Nonfiction

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"The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography." —Booklist
The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, The Genius in the Design is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process, created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today.
"Entertaining. . . . Morrissey finely renders the intense rivalry between these two artists." —Publishers Weekly
"With clear prose and splendid touches of drama, history and architecture are both brought wonderfully to life." —Ross King, New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
"Engrossing." —Matthew Pearl, of The Dante Club
"Genius in the Design reveals the dark side of 17th Century Italy with sparkling anecdotes and you-are-there immediacy" —Laurence Bergreen, author of Over the Edge of the World
"Fascinating . . . a scintillating introduction to the Baroque." —Iain Pears, New York Times bestselling author An Instance of the Fingerpost
"Page-turning reading." —Seattle Times Book Review
"Morrissey illuminates the contrast between the celebrated Bernini and the anguished Borromini." —Boston Globe
Expand title description text
Architecture Biography & Autobiography History Nonfiction