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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 ...
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 ...
A surviving early sketch-book contains sketches and notes, some dated 1680 and 1683, of buildings in Nottingham, Coventry, Warwick, Bath, Bristol, Oxford and Northampton. [2] These somewhat amateur drawings, now in the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection, show that he was still learning the techniques of his new profession ...
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 ...
Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori is a Baroque church in Rome built attached to a convent in the rione of Trastevere, located on Via Garibaldi, near the intersection with Via dei Panieri. Construction of the church was begun in 1643 with plans by Francesco Borromini , [ 1 ] annexed to an Augustinian nunnery that was founded by Camilla-Virginia ...
Francesco Borromini The Palazzo Barberini (English: Barberini Palace ) is a 17th-century palace in Rome , facing the Piazza Barberini in Rione Trevi . Today, it houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica , the main national collection of older paintings in Rome.
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.
Landi Chapel, by Francesco Borromini. The church is built on a rectangular ground plan and barrel vault. It has a single nave with three shallow chapels on each side. The barrel vault has a 19th-century fresco by an unknown artist that replaced one with the same motif by Giovanni Antonio Lelli, depicting the Glory of St Lucy. [5]
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