Grand Salone – Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane (1633)*

Artist/Designer: Carlo Maderno, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona

Project Location: Rome, Italy

Figure 1: Grand Salone, Palazzo Barberini. Rome, Italy. ( Source | Accessed : September 8, 2016 )

Figure 2: Grand Salone, Palazzo Barberini. Rome, Italy. ( Source | Accessed : September 8, 2016 | Photographer: Luca Parravano )

Figure 3: Triumph of Divine Providence, Pietro da Cortona. Grand Salone, Palazzo Barberini. Rome, Italy. ( Source | Accessed : September 8, 2016 )

Figure 4: C1, Grand Salone, Palazzo Barberini, piano nobile, 1628-1638, reconstruction. ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 | Photographer: David DiMarco )

Style/Period(s):
Baroque

Primary Material(s):
Stone, Plaster

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

http://www.everycastle.com/Palazzo-Barberini.html | Accessed : September 9, 2016

Significant Date(s):
17th Century, 1625, 1633, 1639

Additional Information:
Publications/ Texts in Prints:

Bhatti, Mohammad Ali. A Concept of an Illusion of Infinity in Time and Space in "The Divine Providence", a Ceiling Decoration at the Palazzo Barberini, and in "The First Anniversarie and the Second Anniversarie". Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Dissertation Services [Publisher], 1998.

Blunt, Anthony. The Palazzo Barberini; The Contributions of Maderno, Bernini, and Pietro da Cortona. London: Printed by Ebenezer Baylis and Son, 1958.

Feigenbaum, Gail, ed. Display of Art in the Roman Palace, 1550–1750. Getty Publications, 2014.

Merz, Jörg Martin, and Anthony Blunt. Pietro Da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Scott, John Beldon. Images of Nepotism: The Painted Ceilings of Palazzo Barberini. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Walker, Stefanie and Frederick Hammond, eds. Life and Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Waddy, Patricia Ann. "The Design and Designers of Palazzo Barberini". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians / Society of Architectural Historians. (1976): 151-185.

Waddy, Patricia. Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan. New York, N.Y.: Architectural History Foundation, 1990.

Building Address: Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13, 00187 Roma RM, Italy

Supporting Designers/Staff: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Carlo Maderno

Significant Dates: 1625, 1633, 1639

Associated Projects: Palazzo Barberini, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

Tags: Roman, Palace, Barqoue

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