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Francesco Borromini (/ ˌ b ɒr ə ˈ m iː n i /, [1] Italian: [franˈtʃesko borroˈmiːni]), byname of Francesco Castelli (Italian: [kaˈstɛlli]; 25 September 1599 – 2 August 1667), [2] was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino [3] who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque ...
Borromini directed the construction from 1637 to 1652, and was continued by Camillo Arcucci in 1649 and finished in 1667. [7] In 1669 Leone Allacci [ 7 ] presented to the library 243 volumes, 137 Latin and 106 Greek ( Fondo Allacci ), in 1764 Giuseppe Bianchini presented 293 volumes ( Fondo Bianchini ), in 1843 Ruggero Falzacappa presented 79 ...
He commissioned the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini to modify it for him, and it was Borromini who created the masterpiece of forced perspective optical illusion in the arcaded courtyard, in which diminishing rows of columns and a rising floor create the visual illusion of a gallery 37 meters long (it is 8 meters) with a lifesize ...
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The last privately owned Leonardo da Vinci painting and one of fewer than 20 by the Renaissance artist known to still exist is hitting the auction block.
The Palazzo di Propaganda Fide (in English: Palace of the Propagation of the Faith) is a palace located in Rome, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, then Francesco Borromini. Since 1626, it has housed the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and since 1929 is an extraterritorial property of the Holy See. The complex includes a dormitory ...
Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Christ "Salvator Mundi" sold for more than double the old mark for any work of art at auction. Da Vinci portrait of Christ sells for record $450.3 million in New ...
Pietro da Cortona (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro da (k)korˈtoːna]; 1 November 1596 or 1597 [1] – 16 May 1669 [2]) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.