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All images © by Roberto Piperno, owner of the domain. Write to romapip@quipo.it. Text edited by Rosamie Moore.

To the Italian visitors of my web site

Francesco Borromini
(as seen by an XVIIIth century traveller)
 

The chapel in the Collegio di Propaganda Fide

(above - the chapel in the Collegio di Propaganda Fide: (left) ceiling; (right) detail of a window giving light to the church; in my background - the tip of the bell tower of S. Andrea delle Fratte)
See also my list of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and my list of Baroque architects.
The links lead to the page where the subject is discussed.

The fortune of Borromini in the Guides of Rome
Coats of arms by Francesco Borromini in the drawings by Filippo Juvarra
 
Chiesa di S. Giovanni in Oleo (Plate 9)
S. Agnese e Palazzo Pamphily in Piazza Navona (Plate 26)
Chiesa di S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (Plate 35 ii)
Palazzo Barberini (Plate 36)
S. Giovanni in Laterano(Plate 46)
Collegio di Propaganda Fide (Plate 164 ii)
Cappella Falconieri in S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini (Plate 87)
Palazzo Falconieri (Plate 87 iii)
Battistero di S. Giovanni in Laterano (Plate 101)
Palazzo Spada (Plate 131)
Cappella Spada in S. Girolamo della Carità (Plate 111)
Chiesa di S. Maria in Vallicella e Oratorio de' Filippini (Plate 137)
Palazzo Carpegna (Plate 139)
Chiesa di S. Andrea delle Fratte (Plate 146)
Chiesa e Monastero di S. Maria dei Sette Dolori (Plate 159)
Archiginnasio della Sapienza (Plate 161)
Palazzo Giustiniani (Plate 175)
Monte di Pietà (Plate 180)
Villa Falconieri in Frascati (1603-06)