Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza

1580-1585

Andrea Palladio

- using tromp l'oleil perspective

- creating tragic street backdrop

- tragic

regular

classical

- comedic

medieval

haphazard

- satiric

named for satyrs

natural

overgrown

Pedro Calderon

1635

Book which describes the way in which the world itself is the stage upon which mankind displays its merit.

- birth in a monarch family

- a new pope

- arrival of a new dignitary

Remade in 1644-1655

- remade to reflect the power of the Pamphili family

1655-1667

- Most important patron of urban design in baroque rome

- collaborator with Bernini

referred to interventions as "teatri"

- Porta del popolo, piazza del popolo, S. Maria del Popolo and the "twin churches"

- straightened Via del Corso

- Piazza Colonna and Palazzo Chigi

- S. Maria della Pace and its piazza

- Piazza San Pietro

S. Maria della Pace

1655-1669 (massive renovation)

Pietro da Cortona

- Alexander VII was interested since Agostino Chigi sponsored a chapel in it

- Buildings around the facade were bought and semi-demolished to create piazza

- Facade:

2 parallel openings on either side of church door

one opening is main entrance for monestary

the other opening is an alleyway that passes through the facade

piazza di S. Pietro

1656 - 1675

- Bernini chosen as original architect

-two part plan comprised of quadrilateral piazza "piazza retta" closer to the facade and a larger one around Sixtus V's obelisk

- Alexander chose the oval form to evoke the Colosseum

- Bernini experimented with the "terzo braccio" (not built)

- 136 statues atop the cornice are the only baroque flourish

Piazza di Trevi (the last Baroque teatro)

Nicola Salvi

1732-1762

- Fountain built as the mostra for the Aqua virgo (the only remaining fountain)

- First fountain built by Alberti in 1453 for Nicholas V

- 1640-1641 Urban VIII ordered construction of new fountain grand enough to be seen from his summer palace on the quirinal

- 1730 Pope Clement XII Corsini organized a competition to build a new fountain, won by Salvi.

Clement XII Corsini

1730-1740

Commissioned works

he was the biggest builder of 18th C. popes

- new facades of:

- S. Maria Maggiore

- S. Giovanni in Laterano

- S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini

- Palazzo della Consulta (papal supreme court)

- Palazzo Corsini

- Family chapel in S. Giovanni in Laterano

most were designed by Ferdinando Fuga (1699-1781)

- 1704 Porto di Ripetta (now demolished), Alessandro Specchi

- 1723-1725 the Spanish Steps, Fancesco de Sanctis

- 1732-1762 the Trevi Fountain, Nicola Salvi

Pope Pious VI Braschi (1775-1799)

arrested in 1798

- redesign of piazza del Popolo, Giuseppe Valadier

- excavations of Forum of Trajan

- demolition of buildings attached to Pantheon

- isolation of the Arch of Titus

- consolodation of Colosseum

- new cemetery at Campo Verano

Monsignor Francois-Xavier de Merode

1820-1874

- first "modern" urban designer

- bought private properties near S. Maria Maggiore and Castel S. Angelo to divide them into lots

- father of the via Nazionale (1867)

- wanted to make Rome a real European capital by "Haussmanizing" rome

- plans ratified in 1871

- conceived of the Prati district

first built in 1863

- the last pope before rome became capital

- made Acqua Pia Antica Marcia (1868-1870)