Staircase – Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane(1633)*

Artist/Designer: Francesco Borromini

Project Location: Rome, Italy

Figure 1: Staircase, Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, Borromini. ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 | Photographer: Christopher Mckenzie )

Figure 2: Staircase, Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, Borromini. ( Source | Accessed : September 22, 2016 )

Figure 3: Drawing, Staircase, Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, Gian Lorenzo Bernini after Borromini, 1624. ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 | Photographer: Courtauld Institute of Art )

Figure 4: S2, Staircase, Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane. ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 | Photographer: David DiMarco )

Style/Period(s):
Baroque

Primary Material(s):
Stone

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

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.

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

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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