In various essays, well-known specialists reconstruct Baroque Rome as it took shape through the work of the three protagonists of seventeenth-century Italian art: Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona.
The catalogue documents a series of major architectural projects, original drawings, engravings, books, graphics, three-dimensional and virtual models, paintings, sculptures, furnishings, objects from vast collections of curiosities and wonders, scientific instruments, and machines used for building. It is divided into thematic sections introduced by straightforward, informed essays by Sandro Benedetti, Marcello Fagiolo, Enrico Guidoni, Irving Lavin, Paolo Portoghesi, Gianfranco Spagnesi and Claudio Strinati.