FRANCESCO BORROMINI

• 25 September 1599 – 2 August 1667• Italian architect • leading figure in the emergence of Roman

Baroque architecture• Famous works –

San Carlo alle Quattro FontaneSant'Agnese in AgoneSant'Ivo alla SapienzaOratorio dei Filippini

The two architects can be seen as representative of the two distinct sides of Baroque architecture in Rome

• Bernini embraced a Baroque classicism

• strictly inspired by the religious concept that the proportions of buildings should correspond to those of man

• Borromini’s architecture adapted classical elements to a more innovative architecture that was defined by organically curving lines and a complicated interplay of geometrical forms.

• his façades and his famous bizarre bell towers took shape out of a series of geometric subunits, such as squares, rectangles, circles and ovals, repeated in an alternating sequence

Trevi fountain , Rome

(Bernini)

Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome(Borromini)

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Borromini’s work :

Sant'Agnese in Agone

In Borromini's case, geometry is not necessarily meant or only generate form, but also remains an implicit justification of the building as a whole. It becomes a sort of hidden dimension, disguised by a profusion of structural and decorative manipulations.

Presentation by :

- Parthvi ravalji- Neha rampuria