Chapel – Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane (1633)*

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

Project Location: Rome, Italy

Figure 1: Vault, Chapel, Pietro da Cortona, Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 1628-1638. ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )

Figure 2: Wall Decoration and Painting, Chapel, Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 1628-1638. ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )

Figure 3: Sala dell Affresco (C29), showing entry into the chapel. La Divinia Sapienza, fresco, Andre Sacchi. ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )

Figure 4: C30 (Chapel), Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 1628-1638 ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 | Photographer: David DiMarco )

Style/Period(s):
Baroque

Primary Material(s):
Stone, Plaster

Function(s):
Religious Building, Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

official website | Accessed : January 6, 2020

Significant Date(s):
17th Century

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:

Blunt, Anthony. "The Palazzo Barberini: The Contributions of Maderno, Bernini and Pietro da Cortona." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 21, no. 3/4 (1958): 256-87.

Rietbergen, P. J. A. N. Power and Religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini Cultural Policies. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

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: Rome, Palace, Barberini Family, Baroque

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