Palazzo Borghese (Rome, Italy) : View along the southwest façade, showing main portal
- Creator:
- Longhi, Martino, the elder, ca. 1534-ca. 1591
Ponzio, Flaminio, ca. 1560-1613
Vignola, Jacopo da, 1507-1573 - Published/Created:
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
1560-1680 - Date Depicted:
- ca. 1990's
1500 AD - 1699 AD - Materials:
- brick
- Notes:
- Palazzo Borghese is the main seat of the Borghese family in Rome; it was nicknamed il Cembalo ("the harpsichord") due to its unusual trazezoidal groundplan. Its entrance facade faces the Fontanella di Borghese, with a great flanking facade in Piazza Borghese and a slightly angled extension down via Borghese to the river. Howard Hibbard demonstrated that the nine-bay section of palazzo was begun in 1560-1561 for Monsignor Tomasso del Giglio, whose arms remain over the door in Piazza Borghese, and he suggests that the architect was Vignola, an attribution accepted by Anthony Blunt and considered conclusive by James S. Ackerman followed by other scholars since, with more or less reduced interventions by Longhi.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Italy -- 16th century -- (YVRC)
Architecture -- Italy -- 17th century -- (YVRC) - Period/Style:
- Baroque
- Culture:
- Italian
- Accession Number:
- 1A2-I-R-PBO-A3
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
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- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors; rulers and leaders construction buildings; dwellings; houses; town houses; palazzi
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Base Collection
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
ca. 1990's - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10095704
- PID:
- digcoll:1826445