COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Piazza di Sant'Ignazio
Image View:
Side view of central building, from southeast
Creator:
Filippo Raguzzini (Italian architect, ca.1680-1771)
Location:
site: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Date:
1727-1735 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque
Work Type 1:
piazza (square)
Work Type 2:
apartment house
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone; stucco
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; City planning; Housing
Description:
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. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module One
Identifier:
1A1-RF-PI-B3
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Piazza di Sant'Ignazio
