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‘In contrast to Bernini, Borromini preferred monochromatic interiors. Guarini tended to treat the structure monochromatically but employed richly coloured chapels, altars, & appointments.

Cortona's early design for the Villa del Pigneto, near Rome (before 1630[ce]),* derived from the ancient Hellenistic** temple complex at Palestrina, Italy, decisively altered villa design; and his SS Luca e Martina, Rome (1635[ce]), was the first church to develop fully high Baroque characteristics in which the movement towards plasticity, continuity & dramatic emphases begun by Maderno achieved fruition. His reworking of a square to include the facade of Sta Maria della Pace, Rome (1656[ce]), as an intrusive element is a cogent example of the Baroque insistence on participation of the work of art in its environment.’

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*2048GGRE~1600|GR~1664CE

**c[irca]336BCE(-c[irca]1BCE)2048GR~384|GRR~320BCE

*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:] 1016

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