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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Rome, Lazio, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1727-1735 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorRaguzzini, Filippoen_US
dc.date1727-1735en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-10T20:23:01Z
dc.date.available2013-04-10T20:23:01Z
dc.date.issued1727-1735en_US
dc.identifier205622en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 820en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/113240
dc.descriptionFrontal view of central building, looking north; Probably the best-known work of Raguzzini is the group of houses on the Piazza di S Ignazio that he built for the Jesuits in 1727-1735. Faced with the problem of finding an appropriate architecture for the cramped site, while respecting the existing buildings and streets, he designed a masterpiece of urban planning. Opposite the façade of S Ignazio he built a group of five apartment blocks set out like the wings of a stage, the ground-plan of their façades being circumscribed by three ellipses touching tangentially. He thus pushed to extremes the theatrical effect pioneered by Pietro da Cortona at S Maria della Pace, Rome, but reversed Cortona's effect, since it is the stage backdrop of the apartment blocks as seen from the church steps that constitutes the visual attraction and not vice versa. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/21/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; stuccoen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectCity planningen_US
dc.subjectHousingen_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titlePiazza di Sant'Ignazioen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-RF-PI-B2en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypepiazza (square)en_US
vra.worktypeapartment houseen_US
dc.contributor.displayFilippo Raguzzini (Italian architect, ca.1680-1771)en_US


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