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Abbatini, Guidantonio, 210

Abbatini, Guidobaldo, 147

Academy of St. Luke, 76

Adam, Robert, 89

Aeneas and Anchises with the Boy Ascanius (Bernini), 28–29

Aeneid (Virgil), 9, 28

Agrippina, 44

Alberti, Leon Battista, 48, 156

Albertoni, Ludovica, 266

Aldobrandini, Donna Olimpia, 215

Aldobrandini, Cardinal Pietro, 24

Alexander V, Pope, 226

Alexander VII, Pope:

architecture as interest of, 226, 227–28

and Bernini, 5–6, 227–28, 232, 245–47, 251, 257, 258, 259–60, 264

and Borromini, 6, 8, 82, 179, 183, 231–32, 238, 246, 258

death of, 264

election of, 226–28

personal traits of, 226–27

and St. Peter’s, 233–35, 237–38

and Sant’Andrea, 245–47

and Sant’Ivo, 8, 231–32

and Vatican Palace, 251, 254

Algardi, Alessandro, 185, 204

Altieri, Pope Clement X, 266

Andrew, Saint, 246, 250

Anne of Austria, 170

Antoninus Caracalla, Emperor, 203

Apollo and Daphne (Bernini), 28, 29–30, 31, 32–33

Apotheosis of Aeneas, The (Pietro da Cortona), 189

architecture:

changing fashion in, 267

classic, 8, 39, 53, 176

connecting staircases in, 89

disegno in, 27

ecclesiastical, 68, 69, 81, 82, 87, 194

human proportions of, 237

personal approach to, 53

vision in, 14–15

Arconio, Mario, 124

Arcucci, Camillo, 5, 131, 229–30

Argan, Giulio Carlo, 89

Artusini, Cipriano, 155, 158

Assumption of the Virgin (P. Bernini), 21–22, 32

Avery, Charles, 22, 136, 139, 151, 168, 173, 207

Azzolino, Cardinal Decio, 225

 

Baglione, Giovanni, 62, 114

Baldinucci, Filippo:

on Bernini’s death, 267

on Bernini’s early years, 22, 70–71

on Bernini’s French trip, 259, 260, 262

on Bernini’s papal connections, 60, 206, 227, 260

on Bernini’s work, 32, 33, 64, 117, 118, 134–35, 144–45, 158, 205

biography of Bernini, 7, 15–16, 18, 93

biography of Borromini, 39, 92, 93, 163

on Borromini-Bernini rivalry, 163

on Piazza Navona obelisk and fountain, 202–3, 211–12

on St. Peter’s, 153, 162, 163, 233

Baratta, Francesco, 210

Baratta, Giovanni Maria, 248

Barberini, Cardinal Antonio, 167, 170, 231, 239

Barberini, Costanza, 88

Barberini, Cardinal Francesco, 87–89, 90, 98, 106, 114, 138, 167

Barberini, Cardinal Maffeo, 26–27, 33–34, 56, 59, 60, 88; see also Urban VIII, Pope

Barberini, Taddeo, 88, 90, 167, 239

Barberini family:

bee as emblem of, 82, 89, 111, 116, 146, 177

and Castro war, 151, 167

crest of, 82, 150

Palazzo Barberini, 42, 62, 85, 86, 87–92, 95, 98, 109, 189

and Pamphili family, 167, 184, 186

and Urban’s death, 152

Barcaccia fountain, Piazza di Spagna, 168

Baronio, Cardinal Cesare, 77

Baronius, 197

Baroque era, 2, 15, 64, 90, 177, 179, 263

Barozzi, Jacopo (il Vignola), 52

Bassi, Martino, 38

Baths of Diocletian, 147

Bernini, Angelica Galante (mother), 18, 137, 138

Bernini, Caterina Tezio (wife), 139–40

Bernini, Domenico (son):

biography of his father by, 15–16

on Borromini-Bernini rivalry, 158, 163–64, 165

on his father and women, 135, 139, 168

on his father’s early years, 22, 25

on his father’s illness and death, 267

on his father’s papal connections, 60, 205–6, 207, 227, 260

on his father’s work, 168–69, 205–6, 213, 244–45

Bernini, Gianlorenzo:

in Academy of St. Luke, 76

and Acqua Felice, 73

aging of, 245, 251, 257–58, 266

and Alexander VII, 5–6, 227–28, 232, 245–47, 251, 257, 258, 259–60, 264

as architect of St. Peter’s, 41, 86, 94–95, 160, 171, 190, 227, 233; see also Bernini, Gianlorenzo, architecture

biographies of, 7, 15–16, 18, 33, 93

birth of, 18

children of, 258

colleagues and workers held back by, 32–33, 66, 92, 93, 97, 115

and Costanza Bonarelli, 134–39

criticism of, 7, 81, 83–84, 144, 158–59, 161, 162–64, 212–13

death of, 258, 267

early years of, 18, 22–27, 70–71

education of, 26, 27

failures of, 35–36, 149–51, 190

family background of, 17–18, 19

final creative period of, 232–38

French visit of, 8, 25, 259–63

illnesses of, 139, 150, 266–67

and Innocent X, 166–67, 171, 205–8

and Jesuits, 245, 251

knighthood awarded to, 134–35

legacy of, 268–71

marriage of, 139–40

as national treasure, 259–60

papal gift to, 26

personal traits of, 2, 7, 15, 60, 119, 133–34, 165–66, 261, 270

play written by, 166–67

professional traits of, 14, 15–16, 28, 35, 54, 66, 82, 84, 88, 91, 92, 96–97, 104, 118–19, 149–50, 172, 178–79, 256, 262, 270–71

reputation of, 7, 15, 16, 35, 144, 148–51, 155, 159, 162–64, 190, 200, 201, 203, 257, 260, 267

residence of, 241, 267

rivalry of Borromini and, 2, 7, 14, 17, 46, 63, 81, 85–86, 92–95, 96–97, 114, 141, 145, 155–61, 163–64, 165, 167, 190, 207–8, 240

and Rome, 13, 268–71

sculpture by, see Bernini, Gianlorenzo, sculpture

self-portraits of, 16

technical skills of, 73, 83, 88, 149, 155, 164

and Urban VIII, 59–60, 66, 73–78, 80, 82, 85, 86, 92, 116–17, 138–39, 141, 149, 151–52, 163, 166, 170, 190, 202, 228, 257

and Vatican foundry, 73

wealth of, 16, 92, 93–94, 163, 258, 264

and women, 134–38, 168

working with Borromini, 7, 41, 42, 63, 64, 66, 84, 85, 91–95, 175

working with Maderno, 7, 62, 74–75, 81, 85

Bernini, Gianlorenzo, architecture:

Cathedra Petri, 5, 233, 257

Collegium Urbanum, 239, 240

Palazzo Barberini, 62, 85, 86, 88, 90–92

Pantheon bell towers, 85

St. Peter’s, 41, 86, 94–95, 160–64, 171, 227

St. Peter’s Baldacchino, 62, 64, 65, 66, 71, 74, 75–76, 78–84, 86–87, 94, 149, 173

St. Peter’s bell towers, 7, 141–51, 153–64, 167

St. Peter’s Square, 4–5, 233–38, 236

Santa Bibiana, 76–78, 97, 247

Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, 12–13, 243, 244–51, 249

Urban’s tomb, 85, 115–16, 134

Vatican Palace, 251–52, 253, 254

Bernini, Gianlorenzo, sculpture, 265–66

Aeneas and Anchises with the Boy Ascanius, 28–29

Apollo and Daphne, 28, 29–30, 31, 32–33

Barcaccia fountain, 168

Blessed Ludovica Albertoni statue, 266

Borghese bust, 116–19, 212

bust of Costanza, 135–36, 168

Cappella Cornaro, 78, 171–74

Cathedri Petro (Throne of Peter), 5, 233, 257

childhood works, 22–26

Constantine statue, 266

Coppola bust, 265

Daniel, 232–33

David, 28, 33–35

disegno as technique of, 27

Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 172–75, 250

Fountain of the Four Rivers, 203, 205–13, 220

Goat Amalthea Suckling the Infant Jupiter and a Satyr, 23

Habbakuk, 232–33

Head of St. John, 25–26

hidden light source in, 77–78

light and shadow in, 118

lost-wax process in, 83

Louis XIV bust, 262–63

Medusa, 139

Pluto and Proserpina, 28, 29

Ponte Sant’Angelo, 266

Richelieu statue, 170

St. Peter’s, 74, 75–76, 82, 134, 233–38, 236

Santa Bibiana, 77–78

Santoni bust, 23–24

Triton Fountain, 203

Truth Unveiled by Time, 168–69, 170–71, 174

Bernini, Luigi (brother):

and Costanza, 134, 136–38

family honor besmirched by, 266

and St. Peter’s, 146–47, 149

Bernini, Paolo (son), 260

Bernini, Msgr. Pier Filippo (son), 174

Bernini, Pietro (father), 17–18, 19, 26

Assumption of the Virgin, 21–22, 32

Carthusian Monastery, San Martino, 18

and his son’s talents, 22, 27–28

Santa Maria Maggiore, 20–21

and St. Peter’s, 84

Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John, 20

Biffi (sculptor), 39

Bissone, Italy, Borromini born in, 36–37

Bitonto, Fra Giovanni Maria da, 254

Blake, William, 14

Blunt, Anthony, 90, 98, 109, 111, 121, 132, 177, 187, 214

Boardman, Jonathan, 46

Bolgi, Andrea, 160

Bonarelli, Costanza, 134–39, 168

Bonarelli, Matteo, 134

Borghese, Cardinal Camillo, see Paul V, Pope

Borghese, Cardinal Scipione, 24–25, 33, 116–19, 212

Borghese family:

Cappella Paolina as chapel of, 21

and Villa/Galleria Borghese, 24, 35, 118, 169

Borghese Warrior (Greek sculpture), 34

Borromeo, San Carlo, 98

Borromini, Bernardo, 9

Borromini, Francesco:

and Alexander VII, 6, 8, 82, 179, 183, 231–32, 238, 246, 258

as architect, see Borromini, Francesco, architecture attack on himself, 11, 265

biographies of, 8, 39, 92, 93, 163

birth of, 36

death of, 1–2, 4, 264–65

as decorative sculptor, 39, 40, 82

drawings destroyed by, 9

early years of, 37

education of, 38–39

estate of, 264–65

final phase of career, 4–6, 8, 214, 224, 228, 232, 258–59

graphite used by, 10

health problems of, 8–10

income of, 92, 93–94, 96, 97, 113, 264

and Innocent X, 183, 187–91, 193–200, 202–4, 207–8, 217–18, 222, 228, 239, 265

knighthood awarded to, 200

legacy of, 268–71

in Milan, 37–39, 182

and murder in San Giovanni, 199–200, 218

Opus architectonicum, 124, 126–27, 131–32

and Oratorians, 6, 130–31, 133, 229–30

and Pamphili family, 187–91, 218, 224

personal traits of, 2, 7, 16–17, 85–86, 111, 113–14, 126, 200, 228, 270

professional traits of, 5–6, 7, 8, 14, 16, 40, 54, 67, 87, 96, 97, 100, 111, 126, 127, 130, 131, 176, 178–79, 213–14, 222, 230, 243, 270–71

public statements about St. Peter’s, 78–79, 81

quarrels with clients, 5, 7, 224, 228–29

and Radi, 82, 94–95, 97

reputation of, 6, 7–8, 111, 113–14, 230

rivalry of Bernini and, 2, 7, 14, 17, 46, 63, 81, 85–86, 92–95, 96–97, 114, 141, 145, 155–61, 163–64, 165, 167, 190, 207–8, 240

and Rome, 13, 268–71

and Spada, 122, 124–26, 200, 208, 218, 229–30, 258, 265, 270

and St. Peter’s bell towers, 153–61, 193

technical skills of, 66, 68

tomb of, 2–4, 264–65

will written by, 9, 10, 264

working with Bernini, 7, 41, 42, 63, 64, 66, 84, 85, 86–87, 91–95, 175

working with Maderno, 4, 7, 40–41, 62, 67–68, 81, 91, 92, 159

Borromini, Francesco, architecture:

Collegio di Propaganda Fide, 6, 238–43, 243, 246

dolphin as symbol in, 87, 108–9

Filomarino Chapel, 173

and Fountain of the Four Rivers, 203–5, 207–8, 218

Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, 112, 120–33, 219

Palazzo Barberini, 87–88, 90–92, 95, 109

Palazzo Pamphili, 187–89, 196

Palazzo Spada, 254, 255, 256

St. Peter’s, 41, 64, 66–68, 69, 71, 86–87, 91–92, 93, 95, 97, 145

San Carlo, 6, 10, 12–13, 38, 98–111, 112–14, 126, 196, 236, 259, 270

San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, 4, 10, 258

San Giovanni in Laterano, 5–6, 191–200, 207, 208, 218–19

Santa Casa di Loreto, 97–98

Sant’Agnese, 6, 188, 214, 217–20, 222, 228–29

Sant’Anastasia, 112

Sant’Andrea, 245–46

Santissimi Apostoli, 111–12

Sant’Ivo, 8, 82, 115, 175–82, 183, 188, 193–94, 219, 230–32

Bottari, Francesca, 228

Bracciano, Duke of, 170

Braconio, Niccolò, 57

Bramante, Donato, 43, 48–49, 50, 52

Breccioli, Filippo, 68

Brunelleschi’s dome, 52

Bussone/Bussoni, Marco Antonio, 198–200

Buti, Abate Francesco, 227, 261

 

Caccini (sculptor), 18

Caligula, Emperor, 44

Calixtus II, Pope, 214

Callera, Father Orazio, 10

Capella dei Re Magi (Chapel of the Three Kings), see Collegio di Propaganda Fide

Carafa, Cardinal Pier Luigi, 226

Carpegna, Count Ambrogio, 112

Carpegna, Cardinal Ulderico, 112

Carraci, Annibale, 70

Cartari, Msgr. Carlo, 163, 177

Carthusian Monastery, San Martino, 18, 20

Castelli, see Borromini, Francesco

Castelli, Bernardo, 90, 91

Castelli Brumino, Giovanni Domenico, 36

Castel Sant’Angelo, 44, 53

Castro, Duchy of, 151

Cathedra Petri (Throne of Peter) (Bernini), 5, 233, 257

Catherine of Siena, Saint, 192

Cesari, Giuseppe, 17

Ceva, Cardinal Francesco Adriano, 245

Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, 46

Charles I, king of England, 55

Charles VIII, king of France, 19

Chiesa Nuova (New Church), 120, 133

Chigi, Cardinal Fabio, 223, 226, 227

Chigi family, 231, 232

Choiseul, duc de, 268

Christianity:

circle as symbol in, 108

dolphin as symbol in, 87, 150

triangle as symbol in, 108, 177

Christina, queen of Sweden, 92–93

Church of the Redeemer (Il Redentore), Venice, 178

Ciampelli, Agostino, 81

Cigoli, Lodovico, 57

Città di Castello, Matteo, 121

Clement VIII, Pope, 26

Clement X, Pope, 266

Colarmeno, Giovanni, 145

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 259, 262, 263

Collegio di Propaganda Fide, 6, 238–43, 243, 246

Collegium Urbanum, 239, 240

Congregazione della Reverenda Fabbrica, 49, 53–54, 71, 73, 75, 85, 141, 145, 149, 153–60, 161–63, 165, 233, 234–35

Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 238

Connors, Joseph:

on Borromini’s birthplace, 36

on Borromini’s burial place, 264

on Oratorio, 126, 127

on Palazzo Barberini, 91

on St. Peter’s, 86, 145

on San Giovanni project, 5, 196, 199, 208

on Sant’Agnese project, 229

on Sant’Ivo project, 182

on Trinitarians, 98

Conocchia, 258

Constantine, Emperor, 69, 195

and Lateran Palace, 191

and St. Peter’s, 43, 44–45, 46, 48, 50, 80

statue by Bernini, 254, 266

Constantinian church, 194, 195

Contarini, Alvise, 197–98

Coppola, Antonio, 265

Cornaro, Cardinal Federico, 171

Cornaro Chapel, 78, 171–74

Cornèr, Federigo, 173

Correr, Angelo, 234

Cortese, Giglielmo (Il Borgognone), 250

Costaguti, Giovanni Battista, 142

Counter-Reformation, 77

Crucifixion of St. Andrew (Il Borgognone), 250

 

Daniel (Bernini), 232–33

d’Arpino, Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari, 17

David (Bernini), 28, 33–35

della Porta, Giacomo, 52, 54, 175, 194, 202–14

della Rovere, Cardinal Giuliano, 48

Deposition from the Cross (Raphael), 24

des Brosses, Charles, 174–75

Descartes, René, 18

Diana (Domenichino), 24

Dickens, Charles, 237

Domenichino, 24

Domitian, Emperor, 184

Donatello, 34, 35

Dosio, Giovanni Antonio, 57

Drei, Pietro Paolo, 138, 145, 154, 160

 

Ecstasy of St. Teresa (Bernini), 172–75, 250

Eliot, George, 237

Eliot, T. S., 11

Elizabeth of Portugal, Saint, 80

Escoubleau, François d’ (Cardinal de Sourdis), 33

Eugene IV, Pope, 192

 

Fabbrica di San Pietro, 49

Falconieri, Orazio, 258

Fancelli, Jacopo Antonio, 210

Farnese, Cardinal Alessandro, 17

Farnese, Odoardo, 151

Farnese family, 151

Fedini, Domenico, 78

Filomarino, Ascanio, 111

Filomarino Chapel, 173

Finelli, Giuliano, 32, 41, 66, 93

Fonseca, Gabriele, 222

Fontana, Carlo, 150

Fontana, Domenico, 36, 52, 55, 57

Fontana di Trevi, 202

Fountain of the Four Rivers, 202–14

and Bernini, 203, 205–13, 220

and Borromini, 203–5, 207–8, 218

construction of, 209–11

designs for, 203–5, 208–9

model for, 205–7

and obelisk, 208–10, 212–13, 221

water for, 203–4, 207–8, 211–12, 218

Fracchi, G. M., 210

France:

“Bernini modification” in, 263

Bernini’s visit to, 8, 25, 259–63

influence on Roman church, 47, 225

Mazarin in, 151–52, 169–70, 225, 226

Francis I, king of France, 264

Fréart de Chantelou, Paul, 8, 25, 227, 237, 260–61, 263, 267

 

Gaius, Emperor, 156

Galileo, 18, 27

Garovo, Anastasia, 36

Garovo, Leone, 39–40, 67

Gehry, Frank, 270

Genius:

distrust of, 13–14

and power, 207

sources of, 17

Gigli, Giacinto, 148, 209, 216, 222, 224

Giustiniani, Giovanni, 185

Goat Amalthea Suckling the Infant Jupiter and a Satyr, The (Bernini), 23

Gothic forms, 7–8, 38, 39, 51, 68, 101, 106, 182, 192

Gregory II, Pope, 45

Gregory XI, Pope, 192

Gregory XIII, Pope, 121, 202

Gregory XV, Pope, 6, 59, 71, 72, 80, 122, 134, 238

Grimaldi, Giacomo, 156

Guzmán, Enrico de, 20

 

Habbakuk (Bernini), 232–33

Hadrian, mausoleum of, 44

Hadrian’s Villa, 146

Head of St. John (Bernini), 25–26

Helena, Saint, 49

Henry IV, king of France, 26–27

Herrera, Monsignor, 61

Hibbard, Howard, 27, 60, 117, 203, 204, 237

 

Ignatius, Saint, 245

Innocent X, Pope, 5, 131

and Bernini, 166–67, 171, 205–8

and Borromini, 183, 187–91, 193–200, 202–4, 207–8, 217–18, 222, 228, 239, 265

crest of, 189

election of, 152

and Fountain of the Four Rivers, 202–8, 210–12

illness and death of, 222–23, 228, 229

and Mazarin, 226

and Palazzo Pamphili, 185–89, 201

personal traits of, 159, 223

and Piazza Navona, 201–8

and St. Peter’s, 152–54, 156, 157, 158, 159–60, 161–63, 165, 233

and San Giovanni, 191–200

and Sant’Agnese, 201, 214–18, 220, 222–24, 228, 229

and Sant’Andrea, 245–46

and Sant’Ivo, 230

sister of, 185–86

Innocent XI, Pope, 267

 

James, Henry, 21, 64, 196

Jerusalem, Temple of Solomon in, 69

Jesuits, 6, 26, 59

motto of, 251

and Propaganda Fide College, 242

and Sant’Andrea, 245, 246–47, 250, 251

symbol of, 242

John Chrysostom, Saint, 250

John the Baptist, Saint, 4

Juan de la Anunciación, Fra, 99

Juan de San Bonaventura, Fra, 113, 123, 194

Julius II, Pope, 4, 48, 49, 50, 82, 193

 

Kirwin, W. Chandler, 70, 71, 72, 74, 81

Kitao, Timothy, 234

Krautheimer, Richard, 226

 

Lante, Cardinal Marcello, 154, 160

Laocoön, 9

Lassels, Richard, 150

Lateran, see San Giovanni in Laterano

Le Corbusier, 58

Le Duc, Gabriel, 261

Leo IV, Pope, 192

Leo X, Pope, 3, 51

Leonardo da Vinci, 264

Liberius, Pope, 21

Ligorio, Pirro, 52, 175

Lombard tradition, 39

Longhi, Martino the Elder, 121, 155, 160–62, 216–17

Louis XIII, king of France, 170

Louis XIV, king of France, 8, 25, 259–63

Louvre, Bernini’s design for, 25, 259–63

Ludovico (mason), 187

Ludovisi, Nicolò, 205–6, 223

 

Maderno, Carlo:

as architect of St. Peter’s, 7, 40, 54–56, 57, 58, 60–62, 67, 70, 74–75, 80, 85, 94, 142, 143, 158, 160, 217, 238

Bernini’s work with, 7, 62, 74–75, 81, 85

birth of, 55

as Borromini’s relative, 36, 40, 67, 85, 175

and Borromini’s tomb, 264, 265

Borromini’s work with, 4, 7, 40–41, 62, 67–68, 81, 91, 92, 159

career of, 55, 86

death of, 40, 41, 66, 74, 85–86, 91

early years of, 55

and Palazzo Barberini, 62, 85, 88, 90

and Pantheon, 85

physical appearance of, 55

and St. Peter’s Baldacchino, 70, 71–72, 74, 78–79, 81

and St. Peter’s bell towers, 7, 142–44, 154–56, 160

and St. Peter’s façade, 58, 142, 143, 156, 238

San Giovanni design by, 3–4

and Santa Susanna, 78

technical skill of, 66

tomb of, 264, 265

Maggi, Paolo, 56

Magnuson, Torgil:

on Bernini’s work, 83, 85, 146, 234, 247

on Borromini’s work, 129, 133, 220, 246

on Innocent X’s illness and death, 222, 223

on San Giovanni project, 197–98

Mancini, Giulio, 84

Mansart, François, 261

Mantovani, Francesco, 164, 166–67, 207

Marchese, Father Filippo/Francesco, 266–67

Marder, Tod, 24, 147, 204

Martin V, Pope, 192

Martinelli, Fioravante, 8, 9, 79, 91, 176

Maruscelli, Paolo, 122–27, 160, 161

Massari, Francesco, 10–11

Matha, Jean de, 98

Matilda of Tuscany, Countess, 134

Mattia de’Rossi, 260

Maxentius, 43, 191

Mazarin, Cardinal Jules, 151–52, 169–71, 207, 225, 226

Mazenta, Msgr. Guido, 38

McKim, Mead, and White, 89

McPhee, Sarah, 142, 144, 147, 151, 153, 154, 156, 159, 161

Medici family, 3, 53, 115

Medina Fountain, Naples, 20

Metamorphoses (Ovid), 30, 203

Michelangelo, 27, 40, 179, 265

artistic vision of, 53, 54, 56–57, 104

David, 33, 34, 35

death of, 52

Medici tomb, 115

Moses, 269

Piazza del Campidoglio, 234

and St. Peter’s, 43, 48, 51–53, 54, 55, 56–57, 58, 61–62, 64, 143, 196

Mignard, Pierre, 108

Miltiades, Pope, 191

Modena, Duke of, 164, 167

Mola, Giovanni Battista, 160, 215

Montagu, Jennifer, 32

Montecatini, 175

Moschetti, Santi, 160

Mucanzio, Paolo, 56

 

Naples:

as artistic backwater, 20

Bernini family in, 18, 20

history of, 18–19

Santissimi Apostoli in, 111–12

Nash, John, 89

Neri, San Filippo, 5, 120–21, 122, 129

Nero, Emperor, 44, 156

Newton, Sir Isaac, 18, 242

Nicholas V, Pope, 47

Nicoletti, Andrea, 72

Norton, Richard, 34

 

Oliva, Father Gian Paolo, 223

Opus architectonicum (Spada and Borromini), 124, 126–27, 131–32

Oratorians of Saint Filippo Neri, 152

art collection of, 121

Borromini dismissed by, 5, 130–31, 133, 229–30

on early Christian antiquity, 197

founding of, 120–21

importance of music to, 122

Santa Maria as church of, 5, 120, 121

Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, 6, 112, 120–33

Borromini as architect of, 5, 123–27, 130–31, 219

completion of, 130

designs for, 122–23, 124–30, 128

façade of, 127–28, 131–33

Maruscelli’s work on, 122–27

sacristy of, 126–27

windows of, 124, 125, 129–30

Ovid, Metamorphosis, 203

 

Palazzo Spada, 254, 255, 256

Palladian windows, 188–89

Palladio, Andrea, 178, 188

Pallavicino, Sforza, 226

Pallotta, Cardinal Giambattista, 155–56, 234

Pamphili, Cardinal Camillo, 206

and Bernini, 164, 166

and Borromini, 5, 189, 218, 219, 222, 224, 228, 229

coat of arms of, 247

as head of family, 224

and Innocent X, 217, 222–23

and Piazza Navona, 5, 185

and Rainaldis, 215, 217, 219

and Sant’Agnese, 5, 218, 219, 222, 228, 229

and Sant’Andrea, 246–48, 251

villa of, 189–90

Pamphili, Donna Costanza, 205

Pamphili, Cardinal Giambattista, 152, 185; see also Innocent X, Pope

Pamphili, Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, 164, 166, 185–87, 206, 207, 217, 218, 223, 224

Pamphili family:

ambitions of, 183–84

Bernini’s play about, 166–67

Borromini’s quarrels with, 5, 224, 228–29

Doria-Pamphili collection, 185

dove as symbol of, 208, 210

and Fountain of the Four Rivers, 202

and Innocent X’s death, 223–24, 228

Palazzo Pamphili, 185–89, 196, 200, 201, 209, 212, 216, 219

and Piazza Navona, 5, 183–84, 185, 187–88, 200, 201–14

power of, 190

property holdings of, 184–85, 215

and Sant’Agnese, 5, 188, 201, 215–19, 228–29

and Urban’s death, 167

Pannini, Giovanni Paolo, 268–70

Pantheon, 52, 84, 85, 180

Panziroli, Cardinal Giovanni Giacomo, 166, 211

Pascoli, Lione, 8–9

Passeri, Giovanni Battista, 93, 94, 95, 114

Paul III, Pope, 51

Paul V, Pope, 27, 59, 175

and Bernini’s childhood sculpture, 24, 25–26

of Borghese family, 20, 21, 53

catafalque for, 76

death of, 143

and St. Peter’s, 53–54, 55, 61–62, 69–70, 72, 78–80, 142

Perrault, Claude, 262

Peruzzi, Baldassare, 51

Peter, Saint:

altar of, 191

as rock, 58

throne of (papacy), 72

tomb of, 43, 44–45, 46, 57, 70, 73, 80

Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus, 14

Phidias, 27

Philippe de Champaigne, 170

Piazza del Campidoglio, 234

Piazza Navona, 183–84, 201–14, 221

Fountain of the Four Rivers, 200, 201–13, 218, 220

obelisk, 200, 202–3, 208–9

Palazzo Pamphili, 185, 187–88, 201, 209, 212

Sant’Agnese, 5, 214, 220

Piazza San Pietro, see St. Peter’s Square

Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome (Pannini), 268–70, 269

Pietro da Cortona, 6, 89, 189, 208, 259

Pigna, 45

Pius IV, Pope, 12, 196

Pluto and Proserpina (Bernini), 28, 29

Ponzio, Flaminio, 57

Portoghesi, Paolo, 91

on Bernini-Borromini rivalry, 190, 240

on Borromini’s work, 87, 96, 111, 177, 220, 230

on Maruscelli’s work, 125

on Oratorio, 125, 128

on Rainaldis’ work, 217

Poussin, Claude, 210

Praxiteles, 27

 

Quirinale Palace, 12, 90

 

Radi, Agostino, 82, 94–95, 97

Raggi, Antonio, 210

Rainaldi, Carlo, 259

and Innocent X, 190, 233

and Palazzo Pamphili, 186–87

and St. Peter’s, 160, 161–62, 233, 236

and Sant’Agnese, 215–17, 219, 229

Rainaldi, Girolamo:

and Innocent X, 190

and Oratorio, 125

and Palazzo Pamphili, 186–87

and St. Peter’s, 57, 160

and Sant’Agnese, 215–17, 219, 229

Raphael, 24, 27, 43, 50, 51, 179

Reformation, 20, 59, 77

Re Magi chapel, see Collegio di Propaganda Fide

Rembrandt van Rijn, 18

Renaissance, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 56, 104, 264

Richelieu, Cardinal, 169–70

Rinaldi, Giovanni, 250

Rinaldi, Tolomeo, 38

Roman Catholic Church, 19–20, 43

art commissioned by, 20

Avignon Exile, 47

interest in roots of, 193

Laurentian Schism, 47

missionaries of, 238

pope as leader of, 58

and Reformation, 20, 59, 77

rules of architecture in, 48, 56

rules of separation in, 45–46

and St. Peter’s, 72

Western Schism, 47

Rome:

Academy of St. Luke, 76

Acqua Felice, 73

Acqua Vergine, 202

architectural legacy in, 268–71

architectural tradition of, 39, 51

Capitoline Hill, 234

as center of art, 19, 260, 268–71

Christians martyred in, 44

as city of churches, 13, 20, 122

corruption in, 8

La Sapienza in, 115, 175

Lateran as official cathedral of, 5–6, 46, 191

Maderno as first architect of, 74

Pantheon, 52, 84, 85, 180

Piazza Navona, 183–84, 201–14, 221

pilgrims to, 77

Ponte Sant’Angelo, 266

pope as bishop of, 46, 47, 191

Porta del Popolo (northern gate), 232

post-Renaissance era of, 7–8, 36

Tiber River underneath, 143

Via del Quirinale, 12–14

Rossellino, Bernardo, 47

Rubens, Peter Paul, 18

Rughesi, Fausto, 56, 121

 

Sacchetti, Cardinal Giulio, 226

St. Peter, see Peter, Saint

St. Peter’s:

administration of, 49

artists and artisans at work on, 21, 36, 40, 43, 51, 58, 66–67, 94, 146

Bernini as architect of, 41, 86, 94–95, 160, 171, 190, 227, 233

Borromini’s work on, 41, 64, 66–68, 69, 71, 86–87, 91–92, 93, 95, 97, 145

foundations of, 7, 58

Maderno as architect of, 7, 40, 54–56, 57, 58, 60–62, 67, 70, 74–75, 80, 85, 94, 142, 143, 158, 160, 217, 238

pilgrimages to, 57–58

St. Peter’s basilica:

age of, 43

art treasures of, 46–47, 54

Baldacchino, 35, 63–64, 65, 66, 68–72, 73–76, 78–84, 86–87, 93–94, 149, 173

bell towers, 7, 141–51, 153–64, 165, 167, 193, 235

canopy, 62

Cappella Paolina, 21, 157–58

ceiling, 196

as ceremonial center, 46

choir of, 47

ciborium, 68–70, 79, 81

completion of, 227

Confessio, 73

consecration of, 82

construction of (new), 42–43, 48, 49–50, 57–58, 144, 192

construction of (old), 44

cracks in, 7, 148–51, 152–58

design of (new), 48–49, 50–53, 56–57, 58, 61–62, 70, 143, 144, 161–62

design of (old), 51

dismantling of (old), 48, 50, 53–54, 68, 193

dome of, 40, 52, 53, 57, 58, 64, 70, 80, 83, 143–44, 217

façade of, 7, 54, 57, 58, 142, 143, 145, 148–49, 153, 155, 156, 158, 161–62, 215, 238

foundations of, 7, 58, 82, 142, 145, 148–49, 154–59

interior of, 94

original church, 43, 45–48, 193

Porta Santa, 40

rebuilding of, 47

relics and remains in, 54

site of, 43–44, 46, 142

size of, 43, 70

structural problems in, 143, 145, 148, 156–60

St. Peter’s Square:

Bernini’s work on, 4–5, 233–38, 236

Catholicism and, 72

colonnade, 233

Egyptian obelisk in, 57

papal blessings to the people in, 153, 235

Sale, Nicolò, 210

San Andrea della Valle, Borromini’s work on, 40

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, 98–111

Borromini’s designs for, 10, 12–13, 38, 101, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108–9, 110, 129, 133, 150, 196, 236, 242, 258, 259, 270

as Borromini’s hallmark building, 6, 112–13, 114, 126

church, 105–6, 107, 108

cloister, 102, 103, 104–5, 133

consecration of, 114

dome, 109, 110, 111, 248

interior of, 112–13

monks’ residence, 99–102, 129

and Trinitarians, 98–101, 106, 108, 114

San Francesco a Ripa, Altieri Chapel, 266

Sangallo, Antonio the Younger, 51

Sangallo, Giuliano da, 21

San Giovanni dei Fiorentini:

Borromini’s tomb in, 2–3, 264–65

Borromini’s work on, 4, 10, 258

dome, 69

Maderno’s design for, 3–4

tourist visitors to, 265

San Giovanni in Laterano, 198

Apostles celebrated in, 195, 196

Borromini’s commission for, 5–6, 191–200, 218–19

Borromini’s resignation from work on, 5–6, 207, 208

damage to, 191–92

Gothic forms in, 192

history of, 191

and Holy Year (1650), 191, 192–93, 208, 218

murder in, 198–200

as official cathedral of Rome, 5–6, 46, 191

as pilgrimage church, 191

renovation of, 192–97, 200, 208

San Lorenzo, Florence, 53

San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, 77

San Lorenzo Maggiore, Milan, 37–39

San Paolo Maggiore, 138

San Pietro, Montorio, 44

Sansovino, Jacopo, 3

Santa Bibiana, 76–78, 97, 247

Santa Casa di Loreto, 97–98

Santa Costanza, 109

Sant’Agnese in Agone, 221

Borromino’s commission for, 6, 188, 214, 217–20, 222, 228–29

and Innocent, 201, 214–18, 220, 222–24, 228, 229

and Pamphili family, 5, 188, 201, 215–18, 228–29

workmen’s pay for, 222–23

Santa Maria, Vallicella:

as Oratorian church, 5, 120, 121

oratory for, see Oratorio di San Filippo Neri

Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, 52

Santa Maria della Vittoria, 171–72

Santa Maria del Popolo, 232

Santa Maria Maggiore, 20–21, 76, 77, 137, 267

Sant’Anastasia, 112

Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, 244–51, 249

Bernini’s designs for, 12–13, 245–48

Bernini’s satisfaction with, 244–45, 251

Borromini’s plans for, 245–46

Crucifixion of St. Andrew in, 250

history of, 245

Jesuits and, 245, 246–47, 250, 251

patron of, 246, 247, 248, 251

Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, 258

Santa Prassede, Santoni bust in, 23

Santa Susanna, 54, 78

Santissimi Apostoli, Naples, 111–12

Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, 175–82

Alexander’s views on, 8, 231–32

Borromini’s commission for, 8, 82, 115, 175, 176, 183, 193–94

Borromini’s design for, 179–80, 181, 188, 219, 230–32

construction of, 176, 194

cracks in, 230–32

dome, 176, 180, 180, 182

exterior, 177

symbolism in, 176, 177–79, 182

Santoni, Msgr. Giovanni Battista, Bernini’s bust of, 23–24

La Sapienza, Rome’s university, 115, 175

School of Athens (Raphael), 50

Sciopine, Cardinal, 28

Sculpture:

disegno technique, 27

lost-wax process, 83

Seneca, 265

Serlian windows, 188–89, 196

Serlio, Sebastiano, 188, 271

Sforza, Duke Alessandro, 88

Shakespeare, William, 18

Sirigatti, Ridolfo, 17

Sistine Chapel, ceiling of, 51

Sitwell, Sacheverall, 105, 114, 182, 244, 247

Sixtus V, Pope, 23, 55

Smollett, Tonias, 211

Soane, John, 89

Sodalizio dei Piceni, 97–98

Soria, Giovanni Battista, 147, 148

Sourdis, Cardinal François d’Escoubleau de, 33

Spada, Cardinal Bernardino, 153, 155–56, 159, 254, 256

Spada, Cardinal Virgilio, 90, 95, 224

and Borromini, 122, 124–26, 200, 208, 218, 229–30, 258, 265, 270

and Opus architectonicum, 124, 126–27, 131–32

and Oratorio, 122, 124–26, 131, 229–30

as papal advisor, 131, 152–53, 157, 190, 234

and San Giovanni, 193–94, 196, 208

and Sant’Agnese, 216, 217, 218

and St. Peter’s, 152–53, 155–59, 160, 234

Spada family, Palazzo Spada, 254, 255, 256

Stone, Nicholas the Younger, 147, 150

Swiss Guard, 49, 83

Sylvester I, Pope, 43

Symmachus, Pope, 47

 

Tapié, Victor-L., 64, 174–75

Teresa, Saint, 172–75, 250

Tezio, Paolo, 139

Thomas à Kempis, 245

Torriani, Orazio, 57

Tower of Babel, 182

Trinitarii Scalzi del Riscatto di Spagna (Discalced/Barefoot Trinitarians), 98–101, 106, 108, 114, 121

Triumph of Divine Providence, The (Pietro da Cortona), 89, 189

Truth Unveiled by Time (Bernini), 168–69, 170–71, 174

 

Urban II, Pope, 59

Urban VIII, Pope:

and Bernini, 59–60, 66, 73–78, 80, 82, 85, 86, 92, 116–17, 138–39, 141, 149, 151–52, 163, 166, 170, 190, 202, 228, 257

and Castro war, 151, 167

and Collegium Urbanum, 239

death of, 151–52, 158, 167

election of, 59

and Filomarino, 111

and Fontana di Trevi, 202

and Mazarin, 169–70

and Palazzo Barberini, 88

personal traits of, 72, 152

poetry by, 33, 59, 78

and St. Peter’s, 59–62, 66, 71, 72–75, 80, 82–83, 85, 86, 92, 141, 144–45, 147–49, 235

and Santa Bibiana, 77, 78

and Sant’Ivo, 175, 183, 230

tomb of, 85, 115–16, 134

and Trinitarians, 114

 

Valena, Marc Antonio, 142, 148

Van Dyck, Anthony, 55

van Gogh, Vincent, 13

Vasari, Giorgio, 48, 53

Vatican:

art collection of, 27

papal powers in, 259–60

papal residence in, 47, 192

papal selection in, 225–26

Swiss Guard in, 49, 83

Vatican foundry, 73

Vatican Palace, 235, 251–52

and Palazzo Spada, 254, 255, 256

Sala Regia, 251, 252

Scala Regia, 252, 253, 254, 266

Velanti, Livia, 182

Il Vignola (Barozzi), 52

Villard Houses, New York, 89

Virgil, Aeneid, 9, 28

Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John (P. Bernini), 20

Visconti family, 36

Vitruvian rules, 176

Vitruvius, 53

Vives, Juan Bautista, 239

Vivian, Saint (Bibiana), 76–77

Vizzani, Monsignor, 230, 231

Volterra, Daniele da, 192

 

Werro, Sebastian, 68

Wittkower, Rudolf, 8, 13, 164

 

Zola, Émile, 3, 237