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Seventeenth-Century Architecture in ItalyBaldachino, Saint Peter's Basilica - 1624-1633 - Bernini's Baldachino constructed. It was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII Barberini who ordered that ancient bronze structural elements should be removed from the portico of the Pantheon to provide for materials. This act of vandalism led the wits of Rome to proclaim, "Quod non fecerunt Barbari, fecerunt Barberini." Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Palazzo Barbarini, Rome - Moderno is commissioned to design a new palace and is assisted by his nephew, Francesco Borromini. Construction begins in 1628. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was appointed architect in 1629, after the death of Moderno. Construction was largely completed by 1633. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 Image 8 Image 9 Villa Farnesina San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane, Rome - Francesco Borromini - Commissioned by the Spanish Discalced Trinitarians in 1634. The dormitory, refectory, and cloisters wer built by 1638. The church was constructed 1638-41, and the facade 1665-67. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 Image 8 Image 9 Image 10 Image 11 Image 12 Oratorio dei Filippini, (Oratory of St. Philip Neri), Rome - Francesco Borromini - Competition for the design in 1637. Most of the complex of buildings was completed by 1650. The facade was built 1637-40. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Sant Ivo della Sapienza, Rome - Francesco Borromini - The university buildings and part of the cloister were begun by Giacomo della Porta c. 1587. Borromini built the church and the end wall of the cloister 1642-50. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 Image 8 Collegio di Propaganda Fide, Rome - Francesco Borromini - Headquarters of the Jesuit Order in Rome. Borromini was appointed architect in 1646, but little building was done until c. 1662. The facade and church are the only parts designed by Borromini which have survived. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Sant Agnese in Piazza Navona, Rome - Begun in 1652 by Carlo Rainaldi, upon a commission of Pope Innocent X Pamphili. Borromini was appointed one year later, in 1653, after Rainaldi had been fired. Then, in 1657, Borromini was dismissed and replaced by Rainaldi who completed the church. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 Image 8 Saint Peter's Facade, Rome - Bernini - 1629-1666 Image 1 Image 2 Piazzo San Pietro, Rome - Bernini - 1656-1663 Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Cathedra Petri, Rome, Bernini - 1646-1666 Image 1 Image 2 Scala Regia, Rome, Bernini - 1663-1666 Image 1 Image 2 Coronaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome - Built 1645-52 as the burial chapel of the Cornaro family. The altarpiece depicts the Ecstacy of St. Therese. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Sant Andrea al Quirinale, Rome - Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Built 1658-70 as the church in a school for training Jesuit missionaries. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 Image 8 Image 9 Image 10 Image 11 Image 12 Image 13 Fountain of the Four Rivers, Piazza Navona, Rome - Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Built 1648-51, as the centerpiece of the Piazza Navona which was being developed over the ancient Stadium of Domitian by Pope Innocent X Pamphili. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 SS. Martina e Luca, Rome - Pietro da Cortona - Built 1635-50, alongside the ancient Roman Forum, not far from the Arch of Septimius Severus and the Column of Trajan Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 Image 8 Santa Maria della Pace, Rome - Pietro da Cortona - The original church was built c. 1483-90, and the cloister added c. 1500 by Bramante. In 1656-67, Pietro da Cortona built the facade and piazza, and redecorated the interior of the church. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome - Facade built in 1658-62 by Pietro da Corona Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome - Facade built in 1658-62 by Pietro da Corona Image 1 Chigi Palace, Pietro da Corona Image 1 Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome - Carlo Rainaldi - Built 1663-67. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 San Andrea della Valle, Rome - Carlo Rainaldi - Facade built 1661-65. Image 1 Image 2 Piazza del Popolo, Rome - Bernini - Construction of the two churches began in 1662. Santa Maria di Monte (on the left) was completed 1673-75, by Bernini and Carlo Fontana. Santa Maria de Miracoli was completed 1675-79, by Carlo Rainaldi and Carlo Fontana. The piazza was enlarged by hemicycles and other features built by Giuseppe Valadier, 1816-20. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Santa Maria della Salute, Venice - Built by Baldassare Longhena. Construction began in 1631. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Palazzo Pesaro, Venice - Built by Baldassare Longhena. Construction began in 1650 Image 1 Saint-Anne-la-Royale, Paris - Guarino Guarini - Begun 1662; completed 1720; destroyed 1823 Image 1 Image 2 Santa Maria della Divina Providenza, Lisbon - Guarino Guarini - designed c. 1665; destroyed by an earthquake in 1755. Image 1 Image 2 Capella SS. Sindone (Chapel of the Holy Shroud), Cathedral, Turin - Guarino Guarini - Begun 1657, by Amedeo di Castellamonte, upon a commission of Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy. Guarini was appointed architect in 1667, and the church was completed in 1690. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 San Lorenzo, Turin - Guarino Guarini - Built 1668-87 Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Palazzo Carignano, Turin - Guarino Guarini - Begun 1679. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 |
