Palazzo dei Conservatori travel guide

The Conservator's Palace (Palazzo dei Conservator ital) is a Renaissance building on the Capitol Square (Piazza del Campidoglio), north of the Roman Forum in Rome. Today it is the site most of the Capitoline Museums. Michelangelo Buonarroti was around 1539 with the redesign of the Capitol Square after the release of the equestrian statue commissioned in 1538, and planned within this framework, the areas adjacent to the trapezoidal space development. A staircase leads to the Capitoline hill to the Capitol Square, is at its forefront the Senator's Palace. The pages are taken symmetrically with identical facades of two buildings: the Palazzo Nuovo and in the southwest to the northeast of the Conservator's Palace. In the midst of the square stands an equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. The curator of the palace is decorated in Kollosalordnung, in which the two shells are summarized by giant Corinthian pilasters. The portico, whose Schmalseitenjoche under Pope Alexander VII was doubled, supported by Ionic columns, which carry a bow, but a cornice. Michelangelo planned throughout Ädikulenfenster with a gable and a small segment of an offshore balcony. The large central window with a triangular pediment was added later by della Porta, thereby shifting the emphasis of the vertical aspect in favor of centering the central axis. Michelangelo left at his death 1564, the plans for the Konstervatorenpalast, his successor, Giacomo della Porta completed the installation space, and built according to these plans from 1574 to 1599 the palace in the style of Mannerism. After Michelangelo's targets was here first used in the Roman civil architecture of the giant order. See also: and (...) more....

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