ARCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Piazza Navona, Francesco Borromini, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
5 Mar 2019
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Francesco borromini: 1599-1667, maderno"s great nephew, difficult and ill-tempered, dressed eccentrically, hypochondriac and melancholic. Piazza navona: rome, once the stadium of domitian, ancient roman circus or racetrack, around it: narrow irregular streets of rome"s medieval core, sant" agnese church, borromini and rainaldi, 1652, fountain of the four rivers, bernini. Pamphili: begun 1652 by carlo rainaldi, upon a commission of pope innocent x, borromini was appointed one year later, in 1653, after rainaldi had been fired. In 1657, borromini was dismissed and replaced by rainaldi who completed the church. Borromini: s. carlo alle quattro fontane: rome, 1634-1667, commissioned by the spanish discalced trinitarians in 1634, church dedicated to the newly canonized saint charles borromeo, building dedicated to the author of the counter-reformation instructiones. Borromini: s. ivo alla sapienza: rome, 1642-1650, university buildings and part of the cloister were begun by giacomo della. 1587: corromini built the church and the end wall of the cloister between 1642-
