Piazza Navona

Date: 17th century
Image View Description: Exterior: View from South (quarter-length from south end)
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


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