Palazzo Spada
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The Palazzo Spada is a palace located on Piazza di Capo Ferro #13 in the rione Regola of Rome, Italy. Standing very close to the Palazzo Farnese, it has a garden facing towards the Tiber river.
Facade of the Palazzo Spada.
Forced perspective gallery by Francesco Borromini. The corridor is much shorter, and the sculpture much smaller, than they appear.
Facade details.
Francesco Borromini
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Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a lea
Palazzo Spada
…The palace was briefly owned by the Mignanelli family, until in 1632, the palace was purchased by Cardinal Spada, who commissioned modifications from Francesco Borromini. The Baroque architect Borromini who created a masterpiece of forced perspective optical illusion in the arcaded courtyard, in which diminishing rows…
Borromini (anonymous youth portrait)
The forward and backward swinging facade of the church San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome
Oratory of Saint Philip Neri
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza built to abut an existing courtyard