Contents

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Voluptuous Pleasure of Building

Chapter 2 The House of God

Chapter 3 Theories and Practices: The Case of St Peter’s, Rome

Chapter 4 The Architecture of Ascendancy: Buildings and Power

Chapter 5 Corporate Identity

Chapter 6 Shaping the Renaissance City

Chapter 7 Architecture in the Natural World

Chapter 8 Distant Shores

Notes

Timeline

Further Reading

List of Illustrations

Index