Rome as Spectacle - Week 3 Flashcards
Name: Villa Farnesina
Architect: Peruzzi and Sangallo
Date: 1506-1510
Location: Trastevere, Rome
- Built for Agostino Chigi for entertaining
- U-shaped villa
- Frescoes by Raphael
- Open loggias- vaulted overhead- later enclosed
- Gardens used to meet river
Name: Palazzo della Cancelleria
Architect: debate between Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Baccio Pontelli
Courtyard Architect: Bramante
Date:1489-1513
Location: Rome. between the present Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and the Campo de’ Fiori
- built for Cardinal Raffaele Riario who held the post of Cardinal Camerlengo to his powerful uncle, Pope Sixtus IV
- earliest renaissance palace in Rome
- not a 90 degree corner, followed existing street edge
- part of papal procession
- courtyard designed with open loggia fully surrounding
- church included with no indication on facade
Name: Palazzo Vidoni
Architect: Raphael and Lorenzetto
Date: 1515-1525
Location: Rome. situated between Via del Shroud, Vidoni Square and Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
- One of the oldest buildings built in Renaissance
- Based off of an old building built in a different location that was brought to Rome and was enlarged and restored.
- commissioned by Bernardino Caffarelli incorporating pre-existing buildings
- 18th century- Cardinal Vidoni (hence the current name) enlarged it
- The facade had seven spans with the ground floor treated as a rusticated base with horizontal bands of dark-colored tuff
Name: Palazzo Maccarani
Architect: Giulio Romano
Date: 1521
Location: Rome in Piazza S. Eustace
- derivation of Bramantes model
- mannerist architecture
- rusticated ground floor and pilasters
- off of papal way
Name: Palazzo Baldassini
Architect: Antonio Sangallo the younger
Date: 1515-1518
Location: Rome
- built for Balassini, papal jurist from Napoli
- Piano Nobile were apartments while the ground floors were shops
- interiors frescoed by caravaggio, vaga, udine
- Strong rusticated angle, horizontal band corresponding to the window sills, while the rest of the walls are intentionally left bare
- 7 bay facade; 3 stories
- courtyard enclosed on 3 sides
Name: Palazzo LeRoy
Architect: Antonio da Sangallo the younger
Date: 1523
Location: Rome
- Built for Thomas LeRoy, a french cardinal
- tripartite motif for entrance ways- solution for tiny palazzo
- reconstructed to look ancient
- flower motif
- facade destroyed with the construction of corso vittorio emanuele; entry through the side of the palazzo
Name: Palazzo Massimo
Architect: Baldassarre Peruzzi
Date: 1532-1535
Location: Rome
- The entrance is characterized by a central portico with six Doric columns, paired and single.
- constructed of spolia
- inside- perforated architrave
- used to be central post office of Rome
- coffered ceiling, frescoed exterior ceiling
Name: Palazzo Farnese
Architect: Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
Date: 1517-1589
Location: Rome
- Designed for the Farnese family-Alessandro Farnese became Pope Paul III in 1534 and the concept expanded
- became papal palace in 1534
- Michelangelo was brought in to design the third story, the cornice and the courtyard
- The interior is decorated with frescoes by Annibale Carracci.
- During the 16th century, two large granite basins from the Baths of Caracalla were adapted as fountains in the Piazza Farnese, the “urban” face of the palace.
