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Tables of Contents for The Relation Between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
12
Precedent and Setting
Renaissance Precedent: Leon Battista Alberti
13
20
The Structure of the Cosmos in the Baroque
33
30
The Neoplatonic Idea at the Accademia di San Luca
63
26
Philosophical Structures in the Architecture of Borromini
Syncretism and Architectural Syntax
89
14
The Structuring of the Conceptual Process
103
20
Athanasius Kircher and Hermeticism
123
18
Esoteric Symbols of Hermetic and Neoplatonic Philosophy
141
26
Light, Vision and Numerology
167
12
The Transmutation of Geometries
179
20
Philosophical Origins
Neoplatonic Philosophy
199
22
Presocratic Origins
221
26
Bibliography
247
8
Index
255