Carlo Fontana’s history of the Vatican complex, published in 1694, is one of the most ambitious and admired architectural books of the age. The lengthy and often tortuous story of its production and financing can now be told in full from recently identified sources in the archives of the Fabbrica di S. Pietro and in the Archivio di Stato of Rome.

New light on the production of 'Il Tempio Vaticano'

A. ANTINORI
2018-01-01

Abstract

Carlo Fontana’s history of the Vatican complex, published in 1694, is one of the most ambitious and admired architectural books of the age. The lengthy and often tortuous story of its production and financing can now be told in full from recently identified sources in the archives of the Fabbrica di S. Pietro and in the Archivio di Stato of Rome.
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