Early Sicilian Baroque: Quattro Canti, Palermo built circa 1610

Giulio Lasso (died 1617) Little is known of him other than he was a 17th century Florentine architect, best know for his work in Palermo, Sicily. He was responsible for the "Quattri Canti" in the centre of Palermo. This eight sided piazza which is actually a crossroads (hence the name). It is one of Sicily's first examples of the Baroque style of architecture, the result of a road straightening and widening scheme, the piazza is also an early example of architectural town planning. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1024, 459 KB) Author : Urban Description : Quattro Canti, Palermo, Sicilia Body : Canon Powershot A80 Date : August, 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Sicilian Baroque Giulio Lasso ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1024, 459 KB) Author : Urban Description : Quattro Canti, Palermo, Sicilia Body : Canon Powershot A80 Date : August, 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Sicilian Baroque Giulio Lasso ... City nickname: Location Location of Palermo within the island of Sicily. ... Events Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed I (1603-1617) to Mustafa I (1617-1623). ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy, on the Arno River, with a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect, also known as a building designer, is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ... City nickname: Location Location of Palermo within the island of Sicily. ... Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... A piazza is an open square in a city, often used as a marketplace, found in Italy. ... A crossroads (the word rarely appears in singular) is another word for road junction, where two or more roads meet (there are three or more arms). ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ...

Quattro Canti, officially know as Piazza Vigliena, was laid out on the orders of the Viceroy the Duke of Maqueda between 1608-1620 by Lasso at the crossing of the two principal streets in Palermo, the Via Maqueda and the Corso Vittorio Emanule. The piazza is hexagonal four sides being the streets, and the remaining four sides are Baroque buildings the near identical facades of which contain fountains with statues of the four seasons, the four Spanish kings of Sicily, and of the patronesses of Palermo, (Cristina, Ninfa, Olivia, and Agata). The facades onto the interchange are curved, and rise to four floors; the fountains rise to the height of the second floor, the third and fourth floors contain the statues in niches. At the time the piazza was built, it was one of the first major examples of town planning in Europe. Lasso did not live to se its completion and the project was eventually finished under the supervision of Mariano Smiriglio, who was the architect of the Palermo Senate. A viceroy is somebody who governs a country or province as a substitute for the monarch. ... Events March 18 - Sissinios formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia May 14 - Protestant Union founded in Auhausen. ... Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... The Jet dEau fountain in Lake Geneva in Geneva A traditional fountain is an arrangement where water issues from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away. ... For queens of this name, see Christina and Maria Christina. ... Olivia is: A female given name Olivia, a minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Agata Report is a cross-platform database reporting tool created by Pablo DallOglio at Solis, with graph generation and a query tool that allows you to get data from PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL, Informix, InterBase, Sybase, or Frontbase and export that data as plain text, HTML... The word facade (or façade) can mean one of several things. ...