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702132/702835 European Architecture B
Roman Baroque
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some factors in the Baroque
the cycle of taste: freedom from classical rigidity, and the enlarged vocabulary of
Mannerism
a return of public confidence and a boost in church activity and patronage
the Counter-Reformation and the improvement of Rome
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, by Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1645-52
William Fleming, Arts & Ideas (Fort Worth [Texas] 1991), p 353
He held a long javelin of gold, with an iron tip which had a flame coming out of it. Suddenly, he pierced me to the inmost fibre of my being with it and it seemed to me that, as he
drew it out, he dragged me with it; but I felt entirely consumed by the
love of God. The pain was so great that it drew moans from me, even
though the ecstasy that went with it was so great that I would not have
had the pain withdrawn ...
THE TRANSITION: 1570THE TRANSITION: 1570--16301630
Il Gesú, Rome, begun by G B da Vignola, c
1568, and completed to cornice level by the time of his death in
1573
Scala 9122
Il Gesú, planNikolaus Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1968 [1943]), p 233
Il Gesú: Vignola's façade design, c 1573;Giacomo della Porta's façade, completed 1584
engraving by Mario Cartaro, in Giacomo de Rossi, Insignium RomaeTemplorum, 1684; Scala 9111
Il Gesú:Giacomo della
Porta'sfaçade,
completed 1584
Rolf Toman [ed], Baroque
Architecture Sculpture Painting
(Cologne 2007 [2004]), p 14
some Baroque characteristics
1. swagger2. theatricality
3. light & shade4. depth5. unity
6. movement
Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, façade by Alberti, ?1452-1470
Il Gesú, façade byGiacomo della Porta, completed
1584 MUAS 9861; Toman, p 14
PIETRO DA CORTONAPIETRO DA CORTONA
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, ceiling fresco, Sala di Marte, by Pietro da Cortona, 1646. MUAS 5,790
Palazzo Pitti, Sala di Giove, stuccoes by da Cortona, 1643-5Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy [1965], pl 91(B)
SS Luca e Martina, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1635-1650Pru Sanderson
SS Luca e Martina, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1635-1650
Rolf Toman [ed], Baroque Architecture Sculpture Painting (Cologne 2007 [2004]), pp 25, 24
Sta Maria dellaPace, Rome, by
Pietro da Cortona, 1656-7: front view
Scala no 7340
Sta Maria della Pace: detail of upper façadeMiles Lewis
Sta Maria della Paceplan of the church and
piazza & contemporary view
John Varriano, Italian Baroque and Rococo
Architecture (New York 1986), pp 117, 116
Sta Maria della Pace: contemporary viewVarriano, Italian Baroque and Rococo, p 116
Santa Maria della Pace, interior & domeScala nos 9174, 9175
GIANLORENZO BERNINIGIANLORENZO BERNINI
S Andrea al Quirinale, Rome, by
Bernini, 1658-70: plan & view
Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy [1965], p 119; Toman, Baroque, p 39
S Andrea al Quirinale: plan & sectionWittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy [1965], p 119 & pl 62(B)
Baldacchino of St Peter's, Rome, by Bernini, 1624-33
Scala no 9592
St Peter's as designed by Carlo Maderno after 1602James Lees-Milne, Saint Peter's: the Story of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome (London 1967), p 240
St Peter's, Rome
Maderno's design
façade as built 1602-26
Lees-Milne, Saint Peter's, p 240; Brian Lewis 1973
St Peter's, façade with Bernini's south tower(incomplete), 1636-41
Lees-Milne, Saint Peter's, p 259
St Peter's, Bernini's design for
freestanding towers, c 1650
Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy [1973], p 19
St Peter's, in the early C17th before the dismantling of Bernini's tower (on Maderno's base) and the construction of the forecourt
MUAS 14,812
Papal medal of c 1657, showing Bernini's original scheme for enclosing the forecourt of St Peter's
Lees-Milne, Saint Peter's, p 270
St Peter's forecourt, schematic plan of the design shown in the papal medal, with the 'propylæum‘
(modified from) Norman Davies, Europe (London 1997 [1996]), p 571
St Peter's forecourt, by Bernini, 1657-1667, from Piranesi's C18th engravingMUAS 16,361
St Peter's and the Vatican with
Bernini’s forecourt as
executed
(modified from) Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture on the
Comparative Method (17th ed, London 1961
[1896]), p 721
St Peter's and the forecourt, from aboveanonymous
St Peter’s forecourt, looking eastToman, Baroque, p 37
St Peter's forecourt, the colonnade:Scala 9591 9112
St Peter's: the statue of Constantine,by Bernini, 1654-8; view along the portico
Scala 959 ; Pru Sanderson
Scala Regia, Vatican Palace, by Bernini, 1663-6
MUAS 5,818
Scala Regia: detailed plansJeremy Blake, La Falsa Prospettiva in Italian Renaissance Architecture (Stocks-field [Northumberland] 1982), no page
Scala RegiaLees-Milne, Saint Peter's, p 269; MUAS 17,354
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, by Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1645-52;
plan of the sanctuary
William Fleming, Arts & Ideas (Fort Worth [Texas] 1991), p 353; Howard Hibbard, Bernini
(Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1965), pl 134
Cornaro Chapel, Sta Maria della
Vittoria, Rome, by Bernini, 1645-52
anonymous painting in the Schwerin State Museum
FRANCESCO BORROMINI FRANCESCO BORROMINI
Porta Santa, in the portico of St Peter's, Rome, by Maderno,carved by Borromini, 1619-20
Anthony Blunt, Borromini (London 1979), p 17
Palazzo Barberini, Rome, window by Borromini under Bernini, 1628-38
Blunt, Borromini, p 32
Monastery of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, from 1634, plan of wholeWittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy [1965], p 132
Church of San Carlo alleQuattro Fontane, by Borromini, 1638-41:
suggested geometrical basis of the plan
Blunt, Borromini, p 48
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane: section & interior viewWittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy [1965], p 133.; Scala 9466 (1973)
a Roman tetraconchthe Piazza d'Oro of Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, 124, reconstruction
MUAS 13,933
S Carlo alle Quattro Fontane: views of the domeScala 9468 (1973); Millon, Triumph of the Baroque, p 38
S Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
exterior of the lantern
Scala 9470 (1973)
Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, by Borromini, 1637-49engraving & view of the façadeBlunt, Borromini, p 97; Margaret Monk, 1985
San Filippo Neri, reconstruction of Borromini’s scheme for flanking S Maria in Vallicella (by Fausto Rughesi) with a 'Pamphilj Pantheon‘,
1644T G Smith, Classical Architecture (Layton [Utah] 1988), p 30
Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, by Borromini, 1637-49, fireplace in the Sala diRecreazione: elevation, and detail of the Doric frieze and tassels
Weinreb, The Architect's Eye, p 16Anthony Blunt, Borromini (London 1979), p 105
San Filippo
Nerifireplace, general
view
Blunt, Borromini, p
104
San Filippo Nerifireplace, detail at
the sideBlunt, Borromini, p 42
reeding
darts
Roman columns, by G B Montano
Blunt, Borromini, p 42
S Ivo della Sapienza, Rome, by Borromini,
1642-50view & plan within the
Archiginnasiocomplex
Millon, Triumph of the Baroque, p 32; MUAS 5,782
S Ivo della Spienzaplan & diagram of
the geometry
Opera del ... Borromini (1720Blunt, Borromini, p 115
S Ivo, plan, & detail of the beeOpera del ... Borromini (1720)
S Ivo, cross-section & interior viewMUAS 14,146; Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy [1965], pl 69(B)
Insula of the Painted Vaults, Ostia, c AD 120: detail of the Severan painting of the domeWilliam Macdonald, Architecture of the Roman Empire II (New Haven [Connecticut] 1986), p 234
S Ivo della Sapienza, view of domeMiles Lewis
S Ivo, view of domeWittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy [1965], pl 71
S Ivo, upper part; engraving of dome surface with steps
Brian Lewis; Blunt, Borromini, p 42
S Ivo: view of dome and lantern; detail of the finial
Pru Sanderson; Millon, Triumph of the Baroque, p 54
S Ivo: view of lantern and drum; plan of lantern
Scott, 'S. Ivo alla Sapienza', p 302; Blunt, Borromini, p 40
Temple of Venus at Baalbek, c AD 273
Robert Wood, The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria
(London 1757)
reconstruction of an ancient Roman
building, from Montano
G B Montano, Le Cinque Libri(1624-64)
Scala Regia, Vatican, by Bernini, 1665: plan and sectionPalazzo Spada, Rome, colonnade by Borromini, 1652-3
MUAS 5,818; Pru Sanderson, 1985
Palazzo Spada colonnadePru Sanderson; Blake, La Falsa Prospettiva, no page;
Blunt, Borromini, p 45
reconstruction of an ancient building, by G
B Montano
G B Montano, Le Cinque Libri
S Carlo alleQuattro Fontane,
façade by Borromini, 1665-7
Millon, Triumph of the Baroque, p 39
S Carlo: detail of the ground floor levelScala 9471
S Carloclose view of the façade.
MUAS 6,280
S Carlo, upper part of the facadeBrian Lewis
S Carlo, details: niche of c 1675, with a statue of S Charles Borromeo, by Antonio Raggi; a capital of the giant order of the façade, executed after 1667
Blunt, Borromini, p 78; Smith, Classical Architecture, p 13
S Carlo alleQuattro Fontane,
façade by Borromini, 1665-7
Millon, Triumph of the Baroque, p 39
