Episode 298 - The Barberini Palace in Rome – Maderno, Bernini, and Borromini
Rebuilding The Renaissance - Een podcast door Rocky Ruggiero - Woensdagen
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In 1627, Pope Urban VIII hired Carlo Maderno to design his new family palace in Rome. When Maderno died two years later, instead of assigning Maderno’s nephew, the visionary architect Francesco Borromini, as architect, the pope gave the job to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. This may have been the beginning of the famous rivalry between the two architects.