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    BORROMINI OE LAO Birth and Early Training From hiss dy til the end of he nineteen century Borroin sevilifledasthegrst anarchist of archsure, the man who ver- threw allrhelawsthe Ancients and eae them with dsrdes, ad who crrpte he taste many arts inal and Cental Europe fr generations. Now students of ashes are more i lined agree wth the few almost fanatical adies who Sp fed him during his tine, and he general acho edged Sone the kets enises perhaps the geet of Barogue fteiteure In adton ie raul ing ele that a om being an anarchist, he worked within rls ct as hse of ha stale cea rival and that tle wa env ingest par From the stg of tho ancient huders whose pinples he a acesed of denying. Furthermore he ws 4 nero and was ran constantly dogged by dase, often largely of his own reat ing, quareling even nth is bes patton nd cles ind Fhe ‘ime tension dominated hi activity aan aris and he ly eached ‘he ial lution to hi problems by an amos anal concent tion, which we conto some ete watchin che drawings he made ‘hen working ot his deen Francesc Castello mas brn at Baton on Lake Lugano in Later, after he had eae his in Rome, he ella inset Borromin which vasa name used nis mothers fai bt which may have ha forthe architect the added igicanceofrecling thename ofthe Borromeo fim) which haute given tthe word the great Se Chris and his distinguished nephew Carina Federica. Borin came of + family of stonemasons and was related to Domenic Fontana and Madsen, bth of whom had moved Rome, where they hed eabished theme ae the most Secs papal architects ofthe at decades othe seem and the first ofthe seventeen entre, working fr Sits V (as 499) and fr Pas V (hos) rexpeiely Atavery rly age- one bingrapher sts ing, anther ifcen ~ Borromint went 0 Min the Retest map asc cee ad inbwshthe eclesstal andthe arti es Carla Boron a Insittedagteatmosementalrlgius elm which wascomtin by Federicoand the elects which neve sil being inthe ye when Borromini ways the ey One of the Cardinal pineal ingress wasn crchbuiling on which he wee shor teatog to deronseate how the decree and the spt af the Counc of Trent could te spied sich mak, an Brom was certain ‘nluened by thebulingswbichhad heen rece ected or were scully under comet The most important chic of the the Hobgnese Peleine Pellerin called Til Mia, gn hr: Calpine beg (1527-48) tho spent the years 1364101585 in Mi had evolved 4 anant of Michelangel’s sisle which was manieted on the Sophisticated facade ofthe church § Fedele and the monde renal grandeur af the Calg Harem in aby Pais [ Franceaco Maria icchino (1585638) was nl jot Beginning hs tater asa arehitc,bat in the church ofS Giuseppe 3), Degen ‘in 107, he was experimenting wth ew sas whith ld iret todhe Buogue Later Be wast aes crac step tomas he fall Baroque ingvinga deep curve tothe aad ofthe Callep Fv in Sin Milesearchiets wer, howere, above all dzetng ther neies wards the completion of th atedral bythe atom fa tga and the constuction of the otal dometower over ‘he essing. called hy the Milanese the hurio. Boom mas have avned ust in time to witness the list years othe ave phase of billing which ment om from 1603 to 1610, but ven ‘The didnot he would erin Rave een the work shat had een taried ut and probably the designs which had een produced by the varius architects involved nthe completion ofthe Buln who included Tia and Riehino In hi way he would have had the opportunity of sing ~ and possibly even of woking int masons yard in which he mould have Ben abl ole rom the rat Lombardia consrcton nd sone ct in which hisown ily had Been ined His marure wok shows how much he learned from this experience ereached Rome a the end of pei of ume decades daring which Roman architecture bad been almost dormant. Since the eth of Michetangloin 564 he dominant nner habe Vie la whose Ges begun n 568 bad et patter forthe planing {Counter Reformation churches and whose pei alos Srl as shown fr inmane inthe lng he Vill Gil a Aoesinated the ste of his succewnre Giacomo dla Pris] aad Domenico Fontan, the two most scsesful Roman architects in the las decades of the sateen century. The ony architec Understand therevolaonarydsveris mnporated in Michela tls ast works, the Pores Pia (and the Sora Chapel (7h ws Giacomo de Duc [8 who it some waye ate a sot of ier eda between Michlangel and Borrmin When Borromini reached Rome, however, # was a decorate sculptor rather shan a 4 stoemason or 2 bude that he fst ‘hun work He was tten in by tative, Lee Garo (or (Garo), who was engaged i the Jeseaton ofthe porn of St

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