Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome. Cammy Brothers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. x + 310 pp. $75

Two famous books, the Taccuino Senese and the grand Codex Barberini of around 1500, constitute the material point of departure for Cammy Brothers's survey of the drawings of the Florentine architect Giuliano da Sangallo, while she centers her thematic focus in their relation to the ruins of ancient Rome. [...]building mainly on English language scholarship, Brothers's book does, perhaps, not fully exploit or confront the knowledge forwarded in German architectural history and theory. [...]her emphasis on Giuliano's attention to ancient Roman ruins and antiquarian interests prevents a detachment from the conventional assumption that his project revolved around the study of what we today associate with antiquity.