THE BAROQUE IN ROMAN CATHOLIC COUNTRIES C. l6OO-C. 1760

courtyard is, one might say, cut into two, and only one half remains.
The colonnades arc now part of the facade. This exposing to the
public of what had until then been kept private is eminently charac-
teristic of the Baroque, as will be seen presently. The main staircase
of the Barberini Palace also is wider and more open than those of

63. CARLO MADERNA (AND GIANLORENZO BERNINI?): PALAfcZO BARBERINI, ROME,
BEGUN 1628.
the 16th century, the oval second staircase is a typical Serlio-Palladio
motif, and the semicircular niche to the entrance hall in the centre,
as well as the oval saloon to which it leads, are forms that the archi-
tect might have found in Roman churches and in the ruins of
Imperial Rome, but that in domestic architecture are also distinctly
ia the spirit of Palladio (and the Lombards too).
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