Tag: Rome

Figure Ground: Borgo (rioni di Roma) 1829

Direzione Generale del Censo 1829 - Borgo

Borgo, rioni (neighborhood) di Roma, stands just outside S. Pietro and has been greatly altered throughout the ages. Borgo historically has acted as the forecourt to S. Pietro, even prior to the imposition of the Via della Conciliazione by Mussolini in 1936. It also has this awesome seal:

Rione di Borgo seal

Richard Serra & San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

S. Carlino

S. Carlino, originally uploaded by el buitre

Serra firma:

IT WAS in Borromini’s church, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, in Rome that Richard Serra first saw the light a decade ago. “I was standing in a side aisle, looking at the oval space on the floor and the same oval on the ceiling, called a Borromini ellipse. I thought they were at right angles to each other. When I moved to the central aisle, I realised I was wrong. But I kept on wondering: how can I create—how can I actually make—my misrepresentation?”