Sant'Agnese in Agone

Borromini, Francesco; Rainaldi, Carlo

dc.coverage.spatial	Site: Rome, Lazio, Italy	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	1652 (creation)	en_US
dc.creator	Borromini, Francesco	en_US
dc.creator	Rainaldi, Carlo	en_US
dc.date	1652	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-26T19:25:26Z
dc.date.available	2013-04-26T19:25:26Z
dc.date.issued	1652	en_US
dc.identifier	211314	en_US
dc.identifier.other	archrefid: 28	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/118795
dc.description	Frontal view of a side altar; The original plan was conceived by Girolamo Rainaldi, continued by his son, Carlo Rainaldi, and completed, especially the facade and towers, by Borromini. "The church must be regarded as the High Baroque revision of the centralized plan for St. Peter's. The dome of St. Agnese has a distinct place in a long line of domes dependent on Michelangelo's creation - here dome and towers form a grand unit, perfectly balanced in scale. Never before had it been possible for a beholder to view at a glance such a rich and varied group of towers and dome - here the spatial reversal of the facade of S. Ivo is repeated." (p. 142) Source: Wittkower, Rudolph ; revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu.; Art and architecture in Italy 1600-1750, 6th ed., rev., New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999 (0300078900) (accessed 11/9/2007)	en_US
dc.format.medium	stone; marble	en_US
dc.rights	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.	en_US
dc.subject	architectural exteriors	en_US
dc.subject	Baroque	en_US
dc.title	Sant'Agnese in Agone	en_US
dc.type	image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	1A1-BF-SA-C1	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Italian	en_US
vra.technique	construction (assembling)	en_US
vra.worktype	church	en_US
dc.contributor.display	Carlo Rainaldi (Italian architect, 1611-1691); Francesco Borromini (Italian architect, 1599-1667)	en_US