Regola (Rione) - Santissima Trinita Dei Pellegrini, San Girolamo Della Carita, Sant'eligio Degli Orefici, Palazzo Farnese, Palazzo Spada (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Santissima Trinita Dei Pellegrini, San Girolamo Della Carita, Sant'eligio Degli Orefici, Palazzo Farnese, Palazzo Spada, Santa Maria Di Monserrato, Regola. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Palazzo Farnese is a prominent High Renaissance palace in Rome, which currently houses the French embassy in Italy. "It is the most monumental of Roman Renaissance palaces," Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes, "an isolated rectangle of about 150-feet frontage, facing a square." First designed in 1517 for the Farnese family, the palace building expanded in size and conception when Alessandro Farnese became Pope Paul III in 1534, to designs by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, its building history involved some of the most prominent Italian architects of the 16th century, including Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Michelangelo, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta. At the end of the 16th century, the important fresco cycle of The Loves of the Gods in the Farnese Gallery was carried out by the Bolognese painter Annibale Carracci, marking the beginning of two divergent trends in painting during the 17th century, the Roman High Baroque and Classicism. The famous Farnese sculpture collection, now in the National Archeological Museum of Naples, as well as other Farnese collections, now mostly in Capodimonte Museum in Naples, were accommodated in the palace. "The most imposing Italian palace of the 16th century," according to Sir Banister Fletcher, this palace was designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, one of Bramante's assistants in the design of St. Peter's. Construction began in 1515 after one or two years of preparation, commissioned by Alessandro Farnese, who had been appointed as a cardinal in 1493 at age 25 (thanks to his sister, who was Pope Alexander VI Borgia's official mistress) and was living a princely lifestyle. Work was interrupted by the Sack of Rome in 1527. When, in January 1534, Cardinal Alessandro ...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d