Borromini’s drawing, identified as sheet AZ Rom 984, belongs to a series of design variations for the doorway at the centre of the short wall of Palazzo Barberini’s main hall, leading to the adjoining oval room. It belongs to a sequence of proposals that includes at least the preceding sheets AZ Rom 982r, drawn in orthogonal projection, and AZ Rom 983, rendered in geometric perspective. All three drawings show a roundarched doorway surmounted by a circular tympanum supported by kneeling corbels. In these designs, Borromini concentrates on the varying solutions proposed for the figurative decoration within the tympanum.
Design for the portal of the main hall of the Palazzo Barberini
Giuseppe Bonaccorso
2026-01-01
Abstract
Borromini’s drawing, identified as sheet AZ Rom 984, belongs to a series of design variations for the doorway at the centre of the short wall of Palazzo Barberini’s main hall, leading to the adjoining oval room. It belongs to a sequence of proposals that includes at least the preceding sheets AZ Rom 982r, drawn in orthogonal projection, and AZ Rom 983, rendered in geometric perspective. All three drawings show a roundarched doorway surmounted by a circular tympanum supported by kneeling corbels. In these designs, Borromini concentrates on the varying solutions proposed for the figurative decoration within the tympanum.File in questo prodotto:
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