The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome

"The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography." —Booklist

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. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended th...