About the Author

The Author: John Shannon Hendrix earned a Ph.D. in architecture at Cornell University and teaches architectural design and art and architectural history at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, and at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author of four previous books: Platonic Architectonics (Peter Lang, 2004); Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures (Peter Lang, 2003); History and Culture in Italy; and The Relation Between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome. He is the coeditor of Neoplatonic Aesthetics (Peter Lang, 2004) and Neoplatonism and the Arts.