The relation between architectural forms and philosophical structures in the work of Francesco Borromini in seventeenth-century Rome / John Hendrix.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendrix, John Shannon.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Mellen studies in architecture ; v. 9.

Mellen studies in architecture ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borromini, Francesco, 1599-1667.

Borromini, Francesco.

Physical Description:

xiii, 259 pages, 40 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, [2002]

Contents:

Precedent and Setting

1. Renaissance Precedent: Leon Battista Alberti 13

2. The Structure of the Cosmos in the Baroque 33

3. The Neoplatonic Idea at the Accademia di San Luca 63

Philosophical Structures in the Architecture of Borromini

4. Syncretism and Architectural Syntax 89

5. The Structuring of the Conceptual Process 103

6. Athanasius Kircher and Hermeticism 123

7. Esoteric Symbols of Hermetic and Neoplatonic Philosophy 141

8. Light, Vision and Numerology 167

9. The Transmutation of Geometries 179

Philosophical Origins

10. Neoplatonic Philosophy 199

11. Presocratic Origins 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0773469958

077347952X

OCLC:

49626274