S Carlo Alle Quattro Fonta
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 | S. Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane |
| Designer | Frencesco Borromini |
| Location | Rome, Italy |
| Date | 1638 to 1641 |
| Building Type | church |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Baroque |
| Street Address | 23 Via del Quirinale |
| Notes | Also known as San Carlino. Amazing Baroque facade. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/S_Carlo_Alle_Quattro_Fonta.html |
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"S. Carlino's interior conformed to the growing penchant in the seventeenth century for oval designs and to Borromini's fascination with intricate geometrical exercises; besides, an oval plan was well suited to the church's small and narrow building site. Borromini oriented his S. Carlino oval longitudinally, that is, with the entrance at one tip and the high altar at the other...and, eschewing a uniform outline, except in the dome's base, between entrance and altar he squeezed the upper and lower extremities of the oval so that it took on an undulating contour, which he then extended to the elevation. He designed the walls to weave in and out as if they were formed not of stone but of pliant substance set in motion by an energetic space, carrying with them the deep entablatures, the cornices, moldings and pediments."
— Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p346-7.
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Pierre Charpentrat. Living Architecture: Baroque. London: Oldbourne Book Co., 1967. NA1116.C513. plan drawing of church and cloister, p96. Georges Berthoud EPF SIA.
Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. LC 79-18045. NA2760.C46. plan, p234.— A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Updated 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. geometry diagram, p191.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
James Stevens Curl. Classical Architecture: an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. ISBN 0-442-30896-5. NA260.C87. interior photo of chapel, f5.4, p108. exterior photo of entry facade, f5.3, p108.
Donald Corner and Jenny Young. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1834.077
Duane Siegrist, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, July 1993. PCD.3236.1011.0837.037. PCD.3236.1011.0837.038.
G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3556-2. expressionist facade photo, p89.
Leo Steinberg. Borromini's San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane. New York: Garland Publishing, 1977. ISBN 0-8240-2008-1. LC 75-23815. NA5620.C32S73 1977. elevation drawing showing wall articulation, fig m, p181. Francis Naumann. [DP]
Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ISBN 0-13-044702-1. NA200.T7. p346-7.
John Varriano. Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-19-503547-X. LC 85-2902. NA1116.V37. section engraving showing interior, f26, p50. D. De Rossi, Studio; courtesy British Library.
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