Table of Contents

Foreword 1. Birth and Early Training 2. Sources and Theories 3. S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane 4. The Oratory of S. Filippo Neri and the Filomarino Altar 5. Ivo della Sapienza and S. Maria dei Sette Dolori 6. S. Giovanni in Laterano and S. Agnese in Piazza Navona 7. Domestic Architecture 8. The Last Phase 9. Influence and Reputation Notes on Further Reading List of Illustrations Index

About the Author

Anthony Blunt was for many years Professor of the History of Art at the University of London and Director of the Courtauld Institute. He has published extensively on Baroque architecture.

Reviews

Blunt has made a highly significant contribution to our understanding of Borromini’s work from his first ideas on paper to the finished buildings.
*Times Literary Supplement*

This full-length study by a very eminent British art historian is a valuable aid for readers interested in an up-to-date and very thorough analysis of everything Borromini did.
*New York Times Book Review*

Anthony Blunt reveals his great powers as an architectural historian. His prose is remarkably lucid and concise, even plain, yet extremely evocative.
*Art in America*

Anthony Blunt excites expectation whenever he publishes… To the delight of many readers, [his writing moves] with an absolute minimum of technical architectural vocabulary… Altogether the most lucid, sensitive, and trustworthy study of Borromini yet to appear.
*Yale Review*