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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Rome, Lazio, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1625-1629 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorBorromini, Francescoen_US
dc.date1625-1630en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-04T15:43:15Z
dc.date.available2013-09-04T15:43:15Z
dc.date.issued1625-1630en_US
dc.identifier232992en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2551en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/140438
dc.descriptionDetail, center support columns with angled capital blocks to support case as it rises; Flanking the hall, two sets of stairs lead to the piano nobile, a large squared staircase by Bernini to the left and a smaller oval staircase by Borromini to the right. It is not easy to distinguish the share of Borromini in the Palazzo Barberini, but he was certainly responsible for the oval spiral staircase in the right wing, which is a variant of Mascarino's staircase in the Quirnal. In one of the preliminary drawings the steps are shaped in very elongated S-curves, a form which Borromini was frequently to use later, but the architect abandoned this idea and, as built, the steps are straight within the oval spiraling case. Source: Blunt, Anthony; Borromini, Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979 (978-0674079267) (accessed 7/28/2012)en_US
dc.format.mediumstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectstairsen_US
dc.subjectovalen_US
dc.subjectovoiden_US
dc.subjectspiralen_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titlePalazzo Barberini Helicoidal Staircaseen_US
dc.title.alternativePalazzo Barberini Scala Elicoidaleen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-BF-PBHS-A14en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypestairen_US
dc.contributor.displayFrancesco Borromini (Italian architect, 1599-1667)en_US


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