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ROME
City Of Three Ages
AN AMERICAN in Rome finds over. What the tourist may be
his thirst quenched by chi- quite surprised to realize is the
anti, hunger appeased by pasta, dominance of Baroque Rome in
and his eyes and mind occupied the heart of the city, and the sig-
with Roman art and Roman his- nificance of Gian Lorenzo Berini
toy. -whose art is the epitomy of Bar.
Within a day of his arrival he oque statement. He left the mark
seeks the lower depths of the of his age on a city of great ages.
sunken forum floor, the lofty ceil- His fountains dot the city and
ings of the Sistine Chapel, and have inspired Romans and visitors
the magnitude of St. Peter's. alike, served as inspirational force
He knows of ancient Rome, and for Ottorino Respighi's tone poem,
he knows of Michelangelo's and "The Fountains of Rome."
Raphael's painting which repre- Bernini's sculpture embellishes
""tsent the Renaissance in Rome. But several churches and museums in
what he probably knows little the city. His architectural accom-
is y'about is the fantastic career of plishments are on such a huge
the Baroque giant Bernini. scale that man has difficulty in
grasping the magnitude of the
N ACTUALITY there are at least dimensions of his work.
three "Romes," usually term- His fountains appear at the ends
ed ancient, Baroque, and modern, of narrow streets, and become a
with the painting of the Renai- focus of light, space, and vitality.
ssance masters representing a
{ fourth age.I N THE SPACIOUS Piazza Bar-
ements of the old and new berini, a center of downtown
city are somewhat intermingled, Rome, stands Berninis earliest
PIAZZO NAVONA WITH THE FOUNTAIN OF THE FOUR RIVERS AT but the modern city, exemplified great fountain, the fountain of
THE END OF THE SQUARE by the shining glass in the rail- The Triton, a maritime theme
roadstation and the old city are which he repeated fifteen years
somewhat separated from the later in the Fontana Del Moro.
s o ewhar t se p at d y r o m In th e m id d le o f th e P ia z z a N a -
heart of Rome today. vona stands the Fountain of the
Most of the modern buildings Four Rivers, representing the Nile,
lie outside the alleyways, long Danube, Ganges and Plata Rivers,
narrow streets, and old though Bernini's largest scale work in this
often beautiful buildings of down- field, it was completed in 1651.
Tssui' di Lusso di se/a s ltown Roma.
The remains of the ancient city WHEREAS his fountains are
por/a/i daly /taaare set in one part of the town vital elements of baroque
as it stands today. It is on a level Rome's piazzas, Bernini's fame is
several feet below the modern on an even grander scale in the
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The Via Del Foro is a broad tic nature.
I SO street jutting through the °huge
remains in shinning contrast of THE PLACEMET of such works
two eras. At the end of it stands in small churches, hardly to
the Coliseum, a gigantic structure be expected to house famed and
which has outlived men and stands valued works of art, is typical of
unperturbed by man's meager Rome's itimacy.
ways. Many churches possess master-
pieces which musems long for
BUT THESE are landmarks to They are often poorly lighted and
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