Piazza di Sant'Ignazio (Rome, Italy) : Detail of cornice, central building, left side with attic
- Creator:
- Raguzzini, Filippo, ca.1680-1771
- Published/Created:
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
1727-1735 - Date Depicted:
- 9/17/1994
1700 AD - 1799 AD - Materials:
- stone
stucco - Notes:
- Probably the best-known work of Raguzzini is the group of houses on the Piazza di S Ignazio that he built for the Jesuits in 1727-1735. Faced with the problem of finding an appropriate architecture for the cramped site, while respecting the existing buildings and streets, he designed a masterpiece of urban planning. Opposite the façade of S Ignazio he built a group of five apartment blocks set out like the wings of a stage, the ground-plan of their façades being circumscribed by three ellipses touching tangentially. He thus pushed to extremes the theatrical effect pioneered by Pietro da Cortona at S Maria della Pace, Rome, but reversed Cortona's effect, since it is the stage backdrop of the apartment blocks as seen from the church steps that constitutes the visual attraction and not vice versa.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Italy -- 18th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Baroque
- Culture:
- Italian
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-RF-PI-B7
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
open spaces: squares (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors; City planning; Housing construction buildings; dwellings; multiple dwellings; apartment houses; open spaces; squares (open spaces); piazzas (squares)
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Module One
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
9/17/1994 - 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:
- 10110889
- PID:
- digcoll:1850067