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The View from the Concave Stair: Recent Literature on Renaissance Architecture and Architectural Writing
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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1 I owe all I know about Quito cathedral to a lecture, as yet unpublished, by Tom Cummins.
2 Frommel, C. L., Ray, S., and Tafuri, Manfredo, eds., Raffaello architetto (Milan: Electa, 1984)Google Scholar. Other important recent and continuing collaborative efforts, often involving some of the same scholars, are the series of proceedings of thematic conferences of the Centre d'études supe'rieures de la Renaissance at Tours organized (and the volumes edited) by Jean Guillaume; exhibitions organized by Henry Millon and others on Renaissance and baroque architecture, with particular attention to architectural representation and design methods; and the study of the drawings of Antonio da Sangallo conducted by C. L. Frommel, N. Adams, and others.
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7 See, for example, Daniel Sherer, “Tafuri's Renaissance: architecture, representation, transgression,” Assemblage 28 (1995): 34-45.
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