SANT‘IVO ALLA SAPIENZA

ROME,ITALY

BY: NILESH KUMAR

 INTRODUCTION

• Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza is a Roman Catholic church in Rome.

• In the 14th century, there was a chapel here for the palace of the
University of Rome. The University is called La Sapienza, and the
church was dedicated to St Yves.

• The church rises at the end of the alley of buildings so that the façade
can be seen throughout the alleyway; this suggests a decentralized
planning on Borromini’s part

• A courtyard, known as the courtyard of Giacomo della Porta

leads to the entrance of Sant'Ivo.

• The façade is concave, molding the church into the alleyway as if

completing it rather than disrupting it.
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• Location Rome, Italy

• Architect(s) Francesco Borromini

• Type Church

• Style Baroque

• Groundbreaking 1642

• Completed 1660

• Direction of façade East-northeast

• Length 27 metres (89 ft)

• Width 26 metres (85 ft)

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• The façade itself looks like
a continuation of the alley
arches except with the
openings filled in with
small windows, a door, and
a larger glass window
above the door.

• There are aisles of arches

surrounding the right and
left wings of Sant'Ivo
church.

• The inside walls and dome

of the rotunda were
covered by Borromini
with sculptures and
motifs.
• Another detail is that windows
associated with the round sections of
the dome are larger than those
associated with the edges.

• Through the perforations in the

lantern, sunlight illuminates the
dome.

Dome (interior)
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