Carlo Rainaldi and the Roman Architecture of the Full Baroque

Abstract

There are three reasons why Carlo Rainaldi's architecture ought to command a more lasting interest than his actual talent might seem to justify: (1) His works and projects are connected with the most important architectural enterprises in Rome during the seventeenth century. (2) In his process of working we can observe the modification of his own principles of design through the influence of his greater contemporaries. (3) Those principles of design which are distinctly his own can be defined as a carrying over of “mannerist architecture” into the Full Baroque.