(Visual) Notes on Culture
1/18/2009
  San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane, for tourists
A travel brochure, probably 40+ years old. Bilingual (English and Italian) descriptions of Francesco Borromini's San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane (commissioned mid 1630s), the poster-child of "Mannerist" (that is, "mannered," i.e., slightly bizarre) architecture.

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