Baroque Rome with Tony Junker AIA
11-20 May 2009

The Baroque period in Italy, dating roughly from 1550 to 1700, was an era without parallel in the annals of architecture. Most of the works of this prolific and exciting period were built for Popes, Cardinals, and powerful Italian families, so that Rome and its surrounding region of Lazio (Latium) became the fertile center of a dynamic cultural explosion, witnessing the construction of magnificent family palaces, churches that soared like giant sculpture, amazingly inventive gardens and civic spaces of unprecedented boldness and scale.

Even well-seasoned travelers will delight in many new discoveries on this nine-day, eight-night tour, including such rich and varied sites as Bernini's Sant' Andrea del Quirinale and Santa Maria della Vittoria, Maderna's Palazzo Barberini, Vignola's Villa Giulia and church of Il Gesu (all in Rome), Palazzo Farnese in the lakefront town of Caprarola, the fantasitc Parco dei Mostri (Park of the Monsters) in Bomarzo, and many others.

About Your Program Director

Architect Tony Junker is an experienced director of architectural tours in Italy, and a regular collaborator with Under the Italian Sun. Recent tours include The Architecture of Michelangelo, the Hilltowns of Tuscany & Umbria, Palladio in Venice & the Veneto, Ancient Sicily, and Northern Italy. Tony is a partner in the award-winning Philadelphia firm of Ueland Junker McCauley Nicholson, with a career-long interest in the history of architecture. In addition to receiving his Bachelor of Architecture degree at MIT, Mr. Junker studied under renowned architect Louis I. Kahn at Penn, earning masters degrees in architecture and city planning. He also received a diploma in architecture from the Ecole Americaine des Beaux Arts in Fontainblue, France. Tony has taught architectural theory at Penn, Columbia, North Carolina State and the Moore College of Art.

Tour Information

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