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Review: The Architectural Drawings Of Antonio Da San Gallo The Younger And His Circle. Volume I: Fortifications, Machines, And Festival Architecture, George Gorse Apr 1996

Review: The Architectural Drawings Of Antonio Da San Gallo The Younger And His Circle. Volume I: Fortifications, Machines, And Festival Architecture, George Gorse

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This much awaited first in a most ambitious three-volume catalog of the architectural drawings of the Florentine-Roman architect, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484-1546), comes at a bittersweet moment. After more than eighteen years of promoting high quality publications in the history of architecture, The Architectural History Foundation, under its able director Victoria Newhouse, closed its doors this year, having advanced its scholarly mission. This volume clearly graces this distinguished series of award-winning monographs, and one can only hope that the second volume on Sangallo's churches, in particular his twenty-six year work as architect of St. Peter's, and third on …