Architecture of Rome
Baroque
Architecture in Rome
Renaissance Architecture
Medieval Architecture of Rome
Architects and artists have always acknowledged over the centuries
that Rome is rightly called the eternal city. Rome is eternal above
all because it was always young, always in its prime. Here the buildings
that defined the West appeared over more than 2000 years, here the history
of European architecture was written.
The foundations were laid even in ancient Roman times, when the first
attempts were made to design interiors and thus make space open to experience
as something physical. And at that time the Roman architects also started
to develop building types that are still valid today, thus creating
the corner-stone of later Western architecture. In it Rome's primacy
remained unbroken -- whether it was with old St. Peter's as the first
medieval basilica or new St. Peter's as the building in which Bramante
and Michelangelo developed the High Renaissance, or with works by Bernini
and Borromini whose rich and lucid spatial forms were to shape Baroque
as far as Vienna, Bohemia and Lower Franconia, and also with Modern
buildings, of which there are many unexpected pearls to be found in
Rome.
