The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

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Renaissance architecture, which appeared in about 1420 in Florence under Brunelleschi and Alberti, reached its peak in the next generation with the giants of the High Renaissance Bramante, Sanmichele, Sangallo, Peruzzi, Sansovino and Michelangelo, all clearly and sensitively discussed by Professor Murray. This was not only an age of unparalleled architectural achievement in Italy itself, it also holds the key to developments in the rest of Europe for the next three hundred years. Professor Murray’s book first appeared in 1963 and immediately became a standard work. Since then it has been substantially revised. It remains the only scholarly, up-to-date and comprehensive study of this subject so crucial in architectural history that is currently available. ‘Professor Murray’s book is truly welcome What he sets out to do he accomplishes most ably’ (Architectural Design)