Piazza Navona

Image View Description

Exterior: View from South (quarter-length from south end)

Date

17th century

Creator
Innocent X, Pope (Italian pope, patron, 1574-1655)
Work Type
architecture
Work Type 2
sculpture
Style/Period
Baroque
Culture
Italian
Subject
Piazza Navona (Rome, Italy)
Location
Rome (Italy)
Notes

View from Southern part of Piazza Navona. Palazzo Pamphili (1644-50), Sant’Agnese in Agone (1652) to the left, Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (1651) in the center looking northward, and back south, we see the Fontana del Moro (1575). Navona became public space in late 15th c., but transformed into a Baroque architectural and sculptural center in the reign of Innocent X in mid 17th c.

Image Source

Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History, Columbia University

Photographer
Gina Ciancone
Record ID
1213_rome2012_piazzanavona_vr_002