Giuseppe Dardanello, Susan Klaiber, Henry A. Millon (eds.) Guarino Guarini

Abstract

The long awaited, monumental volume dedicated to Guarino Guarini, edited by Giuseppe Dardanello, Susan Klaiber and Henry Millon is all it was hoped to be. Resulting from the 2002 seminar on Guarini held at the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, the present volume is the successor to the two-volume proceedings published in 1970 of the international conference that took place in Torino’s Accademia delle Scienze in 1968. The list of scholars present at the 1968 conference was star-studded, including Rudolf Wittkower, Franco Borsi, Werner Mueller, Wemer Oechslin, Manfredo Tafuri, Paolo Portoghesi, Henry Millon, Richard Pommer, Christian Norberg-Schulz and many others. The resulting collection of papers represented the latest word in Guarini scholarship up to that point. Now with the publication of this new book, Guarini scholarship — having in the meantime been enriched by the monographs of H. A. Meek (1988) and John Beldon Scott (2003) — is once again brought up to date, taking advantage not only of new information gleaned from the ongoing study of archives, etc. (and the dubious silver lining of the 1997 fire in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, which made it possible to learn things about the Chapel which would otherwise have remained unknown), but also of new methods of investigation that have been developed over the intervening thirty-six years.