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2. Francesco Borromini - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Galleria Spada - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Biblioteca Vallicelliana - Wikipedia

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   The library is located in the Oratorio dei Filippini complex [1] built by Francesco Borromini in Piazza della Chiesa Nuova. [2] [3] [4] The library holds about 130,000 volumes of manuscripts, incunabula, and books.

5. Baroque - Wikipedia

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   Another major innovator of the Italian High Baroque was Francesco Borromini, whose major work was the Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane or Saint Charles of the Four Fountains (1634–1646). The sense of movement is given not by the decoration, but by the walls themselves, which undulate and by concave and convex elements, including an ...

6. Giles Worsley - Wikipedia

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   2009 – Gwyn Lloyd Jones, Rome, a meeting ground of two architectural geniuses: Francesco Borromini and Frank Lloyd Wright. 2010 – Léa-Catherine Szacka, Roma Interrotta: A comparative historical analysis of the 18th Century urban project on display (1978 to 2008). 2011 – Rashid Ali, Architecture and urbanism of Mogadishu 1930–80.

7. Da Vinci portrait of Christ sells for record $450.3 million ...

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   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 ...

8. Pietro da Cortona - Wikipedia

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   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.

9. Da Vinci portrait of Christ expected to fetch $100 ... - AOL

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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.