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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Rome, Lazio, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1628-1633 (creation); 1671-1679 (alteration)en_US
dc.creatorMaderno, Carloen_US
dc.creatorBorromini, Francescoen_US
dc.creatorBernini, Gian Lorenzoen_US
dc.date1628-1633en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-26T18:16:43Z
dc.date.available2013-09-26T18:16:43Z
dc.date.issued1628-1633en_US
dc.identifier236353en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 663en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/143972
dc.descriptionGarden wall and stairs, edge of the garden near Via Venti Settembre; The Palazzo Barberini, begun in December 1628, was the last and most complex of Maderno's palace designs, although it was largely executed by others. The basic idea for this palace, with two separate wings in an H-plan, was conceived by its owner, Taddeo Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII. The site is sloping and the piazza lies on a lower level. Although many others contributed to the design, Maderno was in charge of design development. Here again can be seen his characteristic planning of eminently functional suites, closed axes (most notably in the deep, apsed entrance portico, the passage through which was cut only in the 1670s), the complex, three-dimensional arrangement of rooms on the several levels of the palace and the linking stairs. The great three-storey, seven-bay loggia of the west façade is surprising in the context of Maderno's oeuvre (or that of any other Roman architect in the 1620s), but the whole exterior is rendered in his distinctive style with such details as columns set within channels in the walls, splayed jambs (resembling those at the stair entrance in the Palazzo Mattei) in the third storey of the loggia, and the superimposed frames of the north portal. Between 1671 and 1679 the palace was extensively remodelled, apparently under the direction of Angelo Torrone. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 12/9/2007)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; stuccoen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectUrban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644en_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titlePalazzo Barberinien_US
dc.title.alternativeGalleria Nazionale d'Arte Anticaen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-I-R-PB-C22en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypepalazzoen_US
dc.contributor.displayCarlo Maderno (Italian architect, ca. 1556 - 1629); Francesco Borromini (Italian architect, 1599-1667); Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian architect, 1598-1680)en_US


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