7/25/2019 Cymbeline - Iachimo - Piazza Del Campidoglio

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Piazza del Campidoglio Archit

Location Rome, ItalyDate 1538-1650Construction System masonryClimate mediterraneanContext urban plazaStyle Italian RenaissanceNotes Eliptical courtyard ith central !"uresculpture#

At the top o$ the %&ordonata' steps, also by (ichelan"elo# A short al) to

the south *startin" out south-est+ $rom the iazza enezia#

Piazza del Campidoglio Commentary 

.A $e years a$ter he arri/ed in Rome, ope aul III *arnese+ decided toreshape the &apitoline ill into a monumental ci/ic piazza2 (ichelan"elodesi"ned the proect and his iazza del &ampido"lio is one o$ the mostsi"ni!cant contributions e/er made in the history o$ urban plannin"# 4hehills importance as a sacred site in antiuity had been lar"ely $or"ottendue to its medie/al trans$ormation into the seat o$ the secular "o/ernment

and headuarters $or the Roman "uilds, and it as in $orlorn conditionhen (ichelan"elo too) char"e o$ reor"anizin" it as a dynamic ne centero$ Roman political li$e# 4he proect ent $orard in slo sta"es ith manyinterruptions2 little as built be$ore his death in 1567# It as be"un in1538 and as not completed until the se/enteenth century, but(ichelan"elos ori"inal desi"n is preser/ed in en"ra/in"s $rom the 1560sby tienne 9uprac#.

:(ar/in 4rachtenber" and Isabelle yman# Architecture; $rom rehistoryto ost-(odernism# p313-17#