ARCHITETTURA E CITTA' BAROCCA 1978 | A.BLUNT C. DE SETA

Architettura e città barocca, a 1978 volume edited by Anthony Blunt and Cesare de Seta, offers a concise yet incisive reflection on Baroque urban and architectural form. Collecting two seminal essays, it traces the emergence of the Baroque from Renaissance precedents and examines its morphological impact on European cities. Blunt’s historical-philosophical approach decodes the “use and abuse” of Baroque and Rococo, while de Seta analyzes its urban implementation—from Rome under Sixtus V and Bernini to Turin, Versailles, and Vienna—highlighting combinations of theatrical spatiality, perspectival planning, and city expansion logic. This well-illustrated, methodologically rigorous text remains a vital reference for understanding how architecture and urban morphology fused in the Baroque age.