The Architecture of Modern Italy Volume I: The Challenge of Tradition, 1750–1900 /

• Main Author: Kirk, Terry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Princeton Archit.Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Architecture.; Architecture / Design.; Cities, Countries, Regions.

“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms of rupture and rapid innovation. Charting the evolution of a culture renowned for its historical...

Table of Contents:

• Architecture of the Italian Enlightenment, 1750–1800
• Napoleon in Italy, 1800–1815
• Restoration and Romanticism, 1815–1860
• Unification and the Nation’s Capitals, 1860–1900.