COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Palazzo dei Conservatori
Image View:
Court of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, the west wall
Creator:
Giacomo della Porta (Italian architect, ca. 1532-ca. 1604); Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian architect, 1475-1564)
Location:
site: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Location Note:
Piazza del Campidoglio
Date:
1563-1584 (alteration)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Work Type 1:
palazzo
Classification:
architecture
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Relation Work:
part of Piazza del Campidoglio
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; Art museums
Description:
The Palazzo dei Conservatori ("Palace of the Conservators"), originally called the Palazzo Caffarelli, was built in the Middle Ages for the local magistrate on top of a 6th century BCE temple dedicated to Jupiter "Maximus Capitolinus". It was the first use of a giant order that spanned two storeys, here with a range of Corinthian pilasters and subsidiary Ionic columns flanking the ground-floor loggia openings and the second-floor windows. Another giant order would serve later for the exterior of St Peter's Basilica. Its facade was updated by Michelangelo in the 1530s and again later numerous times. The year before Michelangelo's death, the façade of the Palazzo dei Conservatori was started according to a new set of drawings produced under his supervision, and the building was completed (1568-1584) by Giacomo della Porta. The construction of a palazzo of the same design across the square, the Palazzo Nuovo, which established the symmetry of the composition, followed in 1603-1660. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A1-MB-C-V1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Palazzo dei Conservatori
