1727/28
brilliant urban masterpiece of the great Neapolitan architect Filippo Raguzzini (1680/1771), unfortunately
afflicted, like so many beautiful squares in Rome, by the uncivilized presence
of cars
“The state
of mind of the spectator who enters is determined by an instant perception more
than by a progressive revelation. Unlike Piazza S. Maria della Pace center
stage here is taken by the private houses, as sceneries of a stage, no longer
by the old façade of the church” (Rudolf Wittkower)
“Filippo
Raguzzini draws his way of composing from his own personal culture where are
placed the possible combinations of the classical orders along to the memory of
other styles, sometimes combined with personal creativity. Exponent of a frank
Neapolitan joyousness tilting towards the picturesque, translated with stucco
cornices, moving and curving thin profiles and the natural color of the
century, the painting as sky air that made masses and volume impalpable. He
produced an unexpected masterpiece nestled in Piazza S. Ignazio that will be a
model capable of influencing the Roman civil buildings of the eighteenth
century” (Mario Pisani)
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