1. The Baroque Architecture in Italy

2. The Church of Il Gesu, Mother Church of the Jesuit Order, signals a new era in Italian architecture and its relationship to the Roman Catholic Church.
Giacomo Vignola
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Giacomo della Porta

3. As a symbol of the Counter-Reformation, the Gesu solution for façade and interior provides a flexible “corporate” image for the Church in small and large structures alike.
Santa Susanna by Carlo Maderno,
St. Peter’s Basilica, façade & nave by Carlo Maderno,

4. St. Peter’s Basilica, nave
Dome and Altar of St. Peter

5. Gianlorenzo Bernini
At St. Peter’s
St. Longinus
The Baldacchino (or Ciborium)

6. The High Altar with the Doctors of the Church and the Cathedra Petri

7. Bernini’s symbolism of the Church Triumphant and the new Rome: the vivification of the main processional axis

8. The Piazza and Colonnade: the Church embraces the world

9. The power of the Church as an institution takes expression in the new churches of the 17th century. Along with it other kinds of forces also appear, including dynamism (energy and motion), spatial fluidity, and the destruction of limits and boundaries leading to the notion of “continuum.”
Saints Luca and Martina,
by Pietro da Cortona,

10. Energy can be perceived in the nervous perimeter established by the entablature over the wall columns. The interior becomes part of a continuum that is not clearly bounded in the layered wall system. The interior is no
longer a container delimited by wall planes but a locus of forces.

11. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
(St. Charles at the Four Fountains) by Borromini, 1634

13. The dynamic energies of Italian Baroque architecture were explored by many designers and artists.
Saint Ivo della Sapienza by Francesco Borromini, 1642

14. Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin by Guarino Guarnini, 1667ff

15. San Lorenzo, Turin, by Guarino Guarnini, 1668-80

16. Ceiling Frescoes
Ceiling Frescoes
Michelangelo’s
Sistine Chapel

17. Annibale Carracci, Loves of the Gods,
Farnese Gallery

18. Guido Reni, Aurora,
Guido Reni, Aurora,

19. Pietro da Cortona, Triumph of the Barberini, 1633-1639

20. Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Triumph of the Name of Jesus, 1676-1679

21. Fra Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius, 1691-1694