The unrealised architectural projects of Borromini for the princely Pamphili and Carpegna palaces in Rome have been relegated to a genre of ideal architecture on account of the grandeur of their conception and for their typological design complexity which anticipated the developments of seventeenth and eighteenth-century architecture. Rather, it can now be demonstrated that as far as questions regarding models for a “Palace of the Prince” in Renaissance practise and theory, Borromini was well aware of this long architectural tradition for high-ranking patrons – a tradition which culminated in the second half of the sixteenth century in the graphic experimentalism of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno. This article analyses two architectural projects for the Palazzo Barberini which can be related to this Florentine academic environment: the first, attributed by Wittkower to Pietro da Cortona, and the second, an allegorical drawing by Orazio Busini, still imbued with a late Renaissance schematic vision. To underline the specific importance of this academic type of architectural design in contrast to the inventiveness of Borromini’s architecture, his design projects for the Palazzo Carpegna are compared to the series of ideal palaces featured in the Album of drawings of Giovanni Vincenzo Casale, secretary to the Accademia del Disegno during the period when he closely followed the models of Montorsoli. From these comparisons it will be argued that the novelty of Borromini’s architectural projects for the Carpegna and the Pamphili palaces derives from the dynamic activation, interpreted in a “Brandian”-baroque meaning, of traditional academic schemes, that, once freed from the rigidly modular academic pattern, reach a harmonious fusion between interior and exterior design.
I progetti irrealizzati di Borromini per palazzo Pamphilj e per palazzo Carpegna sono stati relegati nel genere delle architetture ideali per la grandiosità della concezione e per la complessità tipologica che anticiperebbero gli sviluppi dell’architettura regia del Sei-Settecento. In realtà, passando in rassegna i modelli di palazzo per il principe nella progettazione e nella trattatistica rinascimentale, si può dimostrare che Borromini tenne conto di una lunga tradizione architettonica per committenze di alto rango, culminata nella seconda metà del Cinquecento nello sperimentalismo grafico degli Accademici del Disegno. A tale ambito accademico si riconducono qui i due progetti per palazzo Barberini, quello attribuito dal Wittkower a Pietro da Cortona, e quello su disegno allegorico di Orazio Busini, ancorati a una schematica visione tardorinascimentale. Per evidenziare il peso specifico di questo filone progettuale sulle elaborazioni borrominiane si segnalano in particolare le somiglianze dei progetti per palazzo Carpegna con la serie di palazzi ideali dell’Album di Giovanni Vincenzo da Casale, segretario dell’Accademia del Disegno al tempo del suo apprendistato col Montorsoli. Si conclude da tali confronti che la novità nei progetti di Borromini per palazzo Carpegna e per palazzo Pamphilj viene dall’attivazione dinamica in senso barocco-brandiano di schemi tradizionali, che sbloccati dalla rigida maglia modulare, mettono in relazione simpatetica interno ed esterno.
Il palazzo del Principe. Idee e progetti dall’accademismo sperimentale fiorentino ai disegni di Borromini, con note sull’Album di Giovanni Vincenzo Casale, / Tabarrini, Marisa. - In: ARCHISTOR. - ISSN 2384-8898. - ELETTRONICO. - I:I(2014), pp. 4-35.
Il palazzo del Principe. Idee e progetti dall’accademismo sperimentale fiorentino ai disegni di Borromini, con note sull’Album di Giovanni Vincenzo Casale,
TABARRINI, Marisa
2014
Abstract
The unrealised architectural projects of Borromini for the princely Pamphili and Carpegna palaces in Rome have been relegated to a genre of ideal architecture on account of the grandeur of their conception and for their typological design complexity which anticipated the developments of seventeenth and eighteenth-century architecture. Rather, it can now be demonstrated that as far as questions regarding models for a “Palace of the Prince” in Renaissance practise and theory, Borromini was well aware of this long architectural tradition for high-ranking patrons – a tradition which culminated in the second half of the sixteenth century in the graphic experimentalism of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno. This article analyses two architectural projects for the Palazzo Barberini which can be related to this Florentine academic environment: the first, attributed by Wittkower to Pietro da Cortona, and the second, an allegorical drawing by Orazio Busini, still imbued with a late Renaissance schematic vision. To underline the specific importance of this academic type of architectural design in contrast to the inventiveness of Borromini’s architecture, his design projects for the Palazzo Carpegna are compared to the series of ideal palaces featured in the Album of drawings of Giovanni Vincenzo Casale, secretary to the Accademia del Disegno during the period when he closely followed the models of Montorsoli. From these comparisons it will be argued that the novelty of Borromini’s architectural projects for the Carpegna and the Pamphili palaces derives from the dynamic activation, interpreted in a “Brandian”-baroque meaning, of traditional academic schemes, that, once freed from the rigidly modular academic pattern, reach a harmonious fusion between interior and exterior design.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.