Guarini's most renowned achievement in secular architecture is the Palazzo Carignano in Turin. His patron was the deaf-mute Prince Emanuele Filiberto Amedeo of Savoy-Carignano (1628-1709). In 1679 Guarini was commissioned to build on a site outside the medieval walls of Turin. The palace was originally designed to have four wings around a large courtyard, but it was completed in 1683 as an open three-winged composition; decorating and finishing continued well into the 18th century. Four stages in the planning of the Palazzo Carignano exist in draft form (Turin, Archv Stato) and have often been published. The final scheme, which was the one built, shows a layout with a central block facing a piazza and set between two straight side wings running back. The facade of the central block is formed with two sinuous S-curves. In the middle is a tall, oval cylinder, which is joined by sweeping counter-curves to the rectilinear end bays of the wings. Two great staircases wind around the central oval pavilion like arms.
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Guarini's most renowned achievement in secular architecture is the Palazzo Carignano in Turin. His patron was the deaf-mute Prince Emanuele Filiberto Amedeo of Savoy-Carignano (1628-1709). In 1679 Guarini was commissioned to build on a site outside the medieval walls of Turin. The palace was originally designed to have four wings around a large courtyard, but it was completed in 1683 as an open three-winged composition; decorating and finishing continued well into the 18th century. Four stages in the planning of the Palazzo Carignano exist in draft form (Turin, Archv Stato) and have often been published. The final scheme, which was the one built, shows a layout with a central block facing a piazza and set between two straight side wings running back. The facade of the central block is formed with two sinuous S-curves. In the middle is a tall, oval cylinder, which is joined by sweeping counter-curves to the rectilinear end bays of the wings. Two great staircases wind around the central oval pavilion like arms.
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