Rome as Spectacle - Week 2

Question 1

Answer 1

Palazzo Venezia

Year: 1455 began, expanded in 1564(church)

Locaction: Piazza Venezia, Rome, Italy

Architect: Leon Battista Alberti

• 1469 became a papal palace
• 1564 expansion including church
• planted courtyard in pallazo venezia. First floor was public, second floor façade appears to be single height
• mix of medieval and renaissance
• empty coiffers in entrance to make it look like an ancient building, mimic the pantheon
• Courtyard shifted when Piazza Venezia was remodeled
• Mussolini occupies for his headquarters

Question 2

Answer 2

Piazza Venezia

Date: 1880-1911

Location: Rome, Italy (Capitaline Hill)

Architect: Giuseppe Sacconi

• via nationale and corso vittorio planned to join to main arteries at the northern edge of pallazo venezia
• 20th century architecture to frame the site
• Mimmicing Pallazo
• much demolition occured to create the space
• Converging point of traffic

Question 3

Answer 3

Victor Emanuelle II Monument

Date: 1882

Location: Piazza Venezia

Architect: Giuseppe Sacconi

• after victor emanuel’s death competition for a monument without program/ site
• First design competition won by a Frenchman, considered inapropriate
• Second competition held for exclusively Italian designers
• Monument to the Unknown Soldier added after WWI

Question 4

Answer 4

Campidoglio

Year: 1538

Location: Capitaline Hill, Rome, Italy

Architect: Michelangelo

• “Belly of the World”, center of Rome
• caused reorientation of Capitaline Hill
• Lateral symmetry, directionality
• Oldest museum in Rome
• Has remained the goverment center with City Hall

Question 5

Answer 5

Forum Boarium

Date: 6th cent. BC

Location: base of the Aventine Hill

Architect: Unkown

• Site of a cattle market next to the Tiber
• Held Imperial Fora
• Temple of Hurcules - more greek
• Temple of Portunis - more roman
• Complex shows the fussion of the two cultures

Question 6

Answer 6

S. Maria in Cosmedin

Date:

Location: Base of Aventine Hill, Rome, Italy

Architect:

• Built over the remains of an ancient temple that was part of the Forum Boarium
• Bell tower from the medieval period - very indicative of the period
• Bath alter piece
• Corbousier references this curch as all white in his architectural records of Rome
• Roof beams left exposed
• Boroque facade with portico added

Question 7

Answer 7

Aventine Hill

Date: Habitation starting here in 5th cent. BC

• Home of Remus in ancient tale \
• Home of plebeans - working class community
• located outside original city bounds
• Current location of Knights of Malta

Question 8

Answer 8

S. Sabina

Date: 422-432 BC

Location: Aventine Hill, Rome, Italy

Architect: unknown

• Basilican type - early christian church
• Rectangular plan
• apse, altar, bulges towards the east
• spolia used
• St. Katherine of Siena - Baroque fresco addition
• Wooden carved doors dating to 5th cent.

Question 9

Answer 9

Knights of Malta Complex

Date: 1760

Location: Aventine Hill, Rome, Italy

Architect:Giovanni Piranesi

• Keyhole to St.Peters
• One of Piranesi’s few built projects - also design Piazza infront of church
• Play on geometry and density