Piazza del Campidoglio

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Presented by Reem Ibrahim

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 ABOUT Piazza del Campidoglio
It is located in the center of the city
of Rome, Italy.
Located atop Capitoline Hill, it is
surrounded by other important monuments
of the city as the Capitoline Museum, Santa
Maria in Aracoeli and Tabularium.
Around the base of the hill there is also the
monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the Altar
of the Fatherland, and the Roman Forum at
its end farthest from Colosseum.

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 ARCHITECTURE OF THE PIAZZA
This project shows the geometrical and classical revival trend while announcing
the way to introducing Baroque figures in tension as the ellipse pavement. It also
incorporates the issue of regularization of public spaces through architecture, as
it would be on the set of a theater.

Michelangelo added the New Palace to the square to help regulate space. Still,
the architect had to solve the trapezoidal shape of it, which made the buildings
were not in relation to any right angle, and the fact that the land fell to the
northern corner of the square. The radical solution of Michelangelo beginning
with the addition of the ramp-ladder called Cordonata. This ascent leads the
passerby look skyward up to get prior municipal power space, located at the top
of the hill. Once in the square pavement it seems to regularize the space thanks
to its oval geometry. This, however, is not true, because due to the trapezoidal
shape of the space, the pavement actually gets more like that of an egg geometry,
with one end narrower than the opposite oval.
 The ramp-staircase that rises to the
square marks the center axis of the symmetrical
space.

When you has to decide which side of

the square pass, since its center is occupied by
the statue of Marcus Aurelius, later to retake
the choice of why flight of stairs up to enter
the Senator palace.

This space, marked by axialidad forces the passer

to realize completely symmetrical arrangement
of elements facing him to them first and then
make those around them.

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 In Roman times the city watched from the Capitoline Hill to
the forum, while in medieval and Renaissance happened to
be faced to the opposite side. The opening of the square
towards the Basilica of St. Peter’s Basilica and not to the
Roman Forum is showing the prevailing power of the time,
the popes.

The combination of oval shape with Diamond

pavement forms collects and transforms a geometric
game between the circle and the usual square in the
Renaissance. The oval part of the pavement of the
square sets a floor anivelado that relates to the slopes
around through steps going up or coming down from
coda as needed. The exception to this level ground is
located in the center of the square, raised slightly to see
the passerby located in the center of the city and the
world, as the historian, specializing in Michelangelo,
Charles de Tolnay explained. In the center of the
pavement also you find a twelve-pointed star as a
subtle reference to the constellations. This

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 History of

Michelangelo changed the orientation of the buildings on the hill by turning it downwards towards Campo Marzio which
was the beating heart of Rome. The objectives for the urban rearrangement of the whole complex for Michelangelo were:
1. it must have been a nice entrance to the city
2. the plateau was to be leveled
3. declining buildings had to be restored
4. it had to become a whole, a unit and have five entrances.

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 ABOUT Piazza del Campidoglio

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Inside the basilica