Piazza del Campidoglio
Title
Piazza del Campidoglio
Date
1538-1650
Identifier
7636
Alternative Title or Name
Capitoline Hill
Creator
Buonarroti, Michelangelo
Creator Nationality
Italian
Work Type
open spaces
Work Location
Italy (nation)
Rome (inhabited place)
Style/Period
Renaissance
Subject
piazzas (squares)
Description
Bird's-eye view of Capolitine Hill designed by Michelangelo in Rome, Italy. "A few years after he arrived in Rome, Pope Paul III (Farnese) decided to reshape the Capitoline Hill into a monumental civic piazza; Michelangelo designed the project and his Piazza del Campidoglio is one of the most significant contributions ever made in the history of urban planning. The hill's importance as a sacred site in antiquity had been largely forgotten due to its medieval transformation into the seat of the secular government and headquarters for the Roman guilds, and it was in forlorn condition when Michelangelo took charge of reorganizing it as a dynamic new center of Roman political life. The project went forward in slow stages with many interruptions; little was built before his death in 1564. It was begun in 1538 and was not completed until the seventeenth century, but Michelangelo's original design is preserved in engravings from the 1560s by Etienne Duprac,"--Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p313-14.
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
N1ITMIC6-11537A1A1
- Date Added
- August 29, 2013
- Collection
- LTU Digital Images
- Item Type
- VRA Core
- Tags
- piazzas
- Citation
- “Piazza del Campidoglio,” LTU Digital Images, accessed April 28, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/11010.