piazza

Examples of piazza in the following topics:

• Mannerist Sculpture

  • For contemporaries in sculpture, the High Renaissance was equated with Michelangelo, and much of the struggle to surpass his success was played out in commissions to fill other places in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, next to Michelangelo's David.
  • He and his followers devised elegant, elongated examples of the figura serpentinata, often of two intertwined figures, that were interesting from all angles and joined the Piazza della Signora collection.

• Italian Architecture in the Baroque Period

  • The façade of the building, with its chiaroscuro half-domed portico and concave side wings, closely resembles a theatrical stage set and projects forward so that it substantially fills the tiny trapezoidal piazza.
  • The piazza, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is formed principally by two colonnades of free-standing columns centered on an Egyptian obelisk.

• Rome and the Papal States

  • Because the Papacy wanted to surpass the grandeur of other Italian cities, the popes built increasingly extravagant churches, bridges, town squares, and public spaces, including a new Saint Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, Ponte Sisto (the first bridge to be built across the Tiber since antiquity), and Piazza Navona.

• Wiligelmo and Other Forms of Architecture

  • On Piazza Grande, the Porta Regia ("Royal Gate"), by the campionesi, and the shorter Porta dei Principi ("Princes' Gate"), are decorated by a pupil of Wiligelmus' with a relief depicting episodes of the life of Saint Geminianus.

• Renaissance Architecture in Rome

  • During the 16th century, two large granite basins from the Baths of Caracalla were adapted as fountains in the Piazza Farnese, the urban face of the palace.