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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane - Rome - Reviews of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane - TripAdvisor
When I went to college in Italy, my professor took us to this fine baroque church. We spent two hours examining it as part of an architecture class. It is my most vivid memory of ...
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Inside Rome: San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane - TripAdvisor
A small church just up the hill from the Palazzo Barberini, Borromini's San Carlino as it's nicknamed is a gorgeous, exuberant example of Italian Baroque architecture. Named for the four fountains on each of the corners of the intersection, you'll likely spend most of your time admiring the exterior...
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, or San Carlino (church, Rome, Italy) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
...was given his first chance to do his own building. It was an impossibly tiny site at the crossroads of the Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains, one of which is built into a niche in the church wall), but S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane was a triumph. To his revolutionary solutions of site problems, for...
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane - Bernardo Borromini from Wists, top web picks from david for topten=buildings. Wists, social shopping scrapbook, wishlist
The best church facade and the best plan in Borromini's little masterpiece. An entire history of classical architecture in a building that breaks the rules, while under...
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Borromini revolutionized the art of building with his innovative architecture. While Bernini primarily operated with monumental architecture and grand prospects, e.g. Piazza di San Pietro (completed in 1667), Borromini dedicated himself to applying small buildings with complicated ground-plans on ex...
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane -- St Charles of the Four Fountains -- Carlino
There wasn't enough room to build either a Greek Cross (four equal arms) or Latin Cross (longer base leg) church, so Borromini used two equilateral triangles joined base-to-base as his plan. He placed the door at one end of the long axis of this diamond shaped pattern and an apse with the main altar...
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