Carignano,new face.
The Palazzo Carignano (Carignan Palas in Piedmontese) is a historic baroque building consists of two buildings located in the center of Turin. Together with the Palazzo Reale and Palazzo Madama is one of the most important historical buildings in the city. Now houses the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento. Nearby are the National University Library and the Teatro Carignano. From April 2006, the Risorgimento Museum is closed for a period of about three years (to reopen in February 2011) for a laborious restoration and redevelopment. Structure [change] The building overlooks the square and the side wall of the Palace of the Academy of Sciences and the back of the impressive church of San Filippo Blacks creates a unique architectural value of the ordinary. In the second half of the seventeenth century (1679-1684) Emanuele Filiberto (known as the Mute) younger branch of Savoy-Carignano Theatine commissioned the famous father, mathematician and architect Guarino Guarini (builder of the famous Chapel of the Holy Shroud) a building for his family . Guarini designed a beautiful building that is one of the most important works of the Baroque in Piedmont, with a U-shaped plan and a unique architectural structure: a tower is slightly elliptical in front and two rear wings unfold to form a square courtyard surrounded completely by the building. The monumental façade the ellipse is distinguishable because it makes room sinuously, making a magnificent effect, and as concave facade alternates with shares in a convex configuration perhaps attributable to the projects of Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the Louvre palace and the Castle Vaux-le-Vicomte [1]. From the courtyard instead of the elliptical tower stands out from the wings, surpassed in height. The model building is to be found even at the Oratorio dei Filippini of Borromini, also recalled the use of exposed brick. The bricks and plastered with mortar perfectly Arrotati powder cooked [2],(read more wikipedia)
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