2018年6月11日 · Carlo Maderno. The Italian architect Carlo Maderno (1556-1629) was the creator of the early baroque style in architecture. Carlo Maderno was born at Capolago on Lake Lugano. He went to Rome before 1588 and worked for his uncle, Domenico Fontana, the architect to Pope Sixtus V. Not until 1596 did Maderno receive an important architectural ...

The buildings constructed as a result of the Baroque architectural revival displayed both great variety as well as certain common traits. The first architect to express many of the features of the new style was Carlo Maderno (1556–1629). In the façade he designed for the Church of Santa Susanna in Rome (1597–1603), he imitated many of the ...

2018年6月11日 · Borromini, Francesco (1599–1667). One of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture in Rome, he was born Francesco Castello in Bissone, near Como, studied sculpture in Milan (where he probably met the masons working on late-Gothic forms at the Duomo), and was apprenticed to his relative, Carlo Maderno, from c.1620, before assisting Bernini (of whom …

Upon Maderno's death in 1629 Borromini was retained to work under Bernini on the giant bronze altar canopy (baldacchino) being erected at Urban VIII's behest over the tomb of the apostle at St. Peter's. Borromini provided ornamental details and technical solutions to the daunting problem of scale, but chafed under the dominant figure of Bernini ...

The expansion of St. Peter's to form a Latin-cross plan and the completion of its facade, all at the direction of Pope Paul V Borghese (reigned 1605 – 1621) on designs by Carlo Maderno (1556 – 1629), opened the seventeenth century on a note of celebration. This tone is evident in both private and public architecture, where new forms and ...

PAPACY AND PAPAL STATES PAPACY AND PAPAL STATES. "Pope" (from the Greek papas, Latin and Italian papa, 'father') was the title given clergy in the ancient church, which in the West eventually became the exclusive title of the bishop of Rome, who was considered the successor of St. Peter and increasingly accepted in the West as head of the whole church.

The Achievements of Gianlorenzo BerniniDominated Seventeenth-Century Art.While Maderno's designs proved to be influential in shaping the direction of the Baroque style, it was Gianlorenzo Bernini who dominated artistic and architectural developments in Rome for much of the seventeenth century.

Popes and PapacyIn the early Christian church, people referred to all priests as pope, from the Greek and Latin words for "father."

The author of Pinocchio's story, Carlo Lorenzini, assumed the pen name of Carlo Collodi from his mother's birthplace, a village in the hills near the Tuscan center of Pescia. Born in 1826, he died in 1890, after being a journalist, a theatre critic, a volunteer in the Italian wars of independence of 1848 and 1859, and a petty bureaucrat in the ...

Maderno. Maderno drew heavily on the works of his predecessor Giacomo della Porta (1533 – 1602), who completed most of the projects Michelangelo left unfinished and was himself responsible for the fa ç ade of the Ges ù and the plan and section of S. Andrea della Valle. Della Porta exploited both Michelangelo's emphasis on the vertical and ...