PALAZZO DORIA PAMFILI, PALAZZO BARBERINI, VILLA ALDOBRANDINI. 101 





109. PLAN OF THE PALAZZO BARBERINI, STRADA FELICE, ROME. 



artist in each generation 

 to a fortune, which also 

 ebbs and may leave him 

 stranded on a shoal of 

 future neglect. Not 

 even Sir Joshua himself 

 can now persuade us 

 to enthuse over the 

 Caracci, Domenichino 

 and many another of the 

 objects of his eulogy. 

 A. T. B. 



The Palazzo Bar- 

 berini in the Strada 

 Felice was begun by 

 Carlo Maderna, author 

 of the extended nave of 

 St. Peter's and its feeble 



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west front, but Bernini had so much to do with its construction and with the alterations 

 and additions made to this palace that he can be considered as mainly responsible for the 

 design. Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Urban VIII, built the palace on the site 

 of the casino and gar- 

 dens of the Dukes of 

 Sforza. It was finished 

 in 1630. The special 

 point of the plan is the 

 portico loggia under the 

 main building, which 

 draws inwards to a 

 central vista extending 

 up a great flight of steps 

 leading to the gardens. 

 At the end of the vista 

 is a fountain ornamented 

 by a colossal statue of 

 Apollo. The main 

 fa9ade is a Barocco ver- 

 sion, as it were, of the 

 idea of the Coliseum, a 

 series of repeated tiers 

 of arcades, a scheme 

 which is not particularly 

 appropriate to a palace. 

 The attempt here made 

 to obtain the desired 

 depth by recessing the 

 jambs in splays shows 

 too much reliance on 

 the methods of pic- 

 torial perspective. The 

 actual building result is 

 one suggestive of weak- 

 ness, and of a greater no. VILLA ALDOBRANDINI, VIA NAZIONALE, ROME. 



