The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists; they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peters in Rome; became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world; and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched; full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight; The Genius in the Design is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and; in the process; created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today.
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