Index of this site

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Contents:
General the structure of this website.
Coats of Arms of the Popes: pages dealing with the coats of arms of the popes in their historical context.
Giuseppe Vasi Inc.(ise): pages dealing with the etchings of Giuseppe Vasi.
The Exhibitions: pages dealing with a specific pope, or location or monument.
The Maps: maps and views of Rome.
Marginalia: pages dealing with various topics: Venetian Fortresses, Walls of Constantinople, etc.

The Main Page
The Plan of this site
What's new! (a list of the most recent additions to this website)
My Guestbook
View my 2000 Guestbook
View my 1999 Guestbook
View my 1997/1998 Guestbook
The Hall of Fame of this site

COATS OF ARMS OF THE POPES
Main Entrance
Alphabetical list of the popes covered in this website
Historical Section
Introduction to the historical section of this site
The Middle Ages
Renaissance
The Counter-Reformation
Baroque
The long decadence
The catalog of the coats of arms of the popes
The finest coats of arms

GIUSEPPE VASI Inc.
this page introduces to 10 books with more than 200 etchings of 1750 Rome
Book I - Le Porte e le Mura di Roma - 1747 (The Gates and the Walls of Rome)
Book II - Le Piazze principali con obelischi, colonne ed altri ornamenti - 1752 (The main Squares with obelisks, columns and other embellishments)
Book III - Le Basiliche e Chiese antiche - 1753 (The Basilicas and the Old Churches)
Book IV - I Palazzi e le vie pił celebri - 1754 (The Palaces and the most famous Streets)
Book V - I Ponti e gli edifici sul Tevere - 1754 (The Bridges and the buildings on the Tiber)
Book VI - Le Chiese parrocchiali - 1756 (The Parish Churches)
Book VII - I Conventi e case dei chierici regolari - 1756 (The Friaries)
Book VIII - I Monasterj e conservatori di donne - 1758 (The Nunneries)
Book IX - I Collegi, Spedali e luoghi pii - 1759 (Colleges, Hospitals and other pious buildings)
Book X - Le Ville e giardini pił rimarchevoli - 1761 (The most remarkable Villas and Gardens)
and a 1781 map of Rome (for the index of my pages on Rome in the footsteps of an XVIIIth century traveller click here)


THE EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition Hall - Main Entrance
Exhibitions covering a specific pope:
A Pope and a Humanist (Pius II 1458-64)
His moons shone for 26 days (Pius III 1503)
Gregoriopolis and the Castle of Julius II (1503-13)
The Duchy of Castro (Paulus III 1534-50)
The Gay Days of Julius III (1550-55)
The Dragon and the Calendar (Gregorius XIII 1572-85)
Lions and Pears (Sixtus V 1585-90)
Stars and Stripes (Clemens VIII 1592-1605)
Dragons and Eagles (Paulus V 1605-21)
The Sun of the Barberini (Urbanus VIII 1623-44)
A Laborious Delivery - the puzzling coats of arms of Urbanus VIII (1623-44) by Bernini in St Peter's
Where the Dove flies (Innocentius X 1644-55)
Six Mountains and a Star (Alexander VII 1655-67)
Scala Regia - the entrance to the Vatican (Alexander VII 1655-67)
Petra in Ascoli (Clemens XI 1700-21)
A Pope from Urbino (Clemens XI 1700-21)
A Great Maecenas (Clemens XII 1730-40)
The Wind was too Strong (Pius VI 1775-99)
Other exhibitions:
Fortresses of the Popes
The Castle of Spoleto
Avignon
In the Granduchy of Tuscany
The coats of arms spared by the Revolution
Madrid
The Last Baroque Tomb
Small Piers and Globes
Gates of the Popes
It wasn't done in a day (A clue to the decoration of St Peter's)
De Gloria Olivae (Change and Tradition in the papal transition)
Filippo Juvarra - Introduction and the following plates
Plate 1: Michelangelo Buonarroti - Porta Pia - Coat of arms of Pius IV
Plate 2: Michelangelo Buonarroti - Statue of Marco Aurelio - Coat of arms of Rome
Plate 3: Donato Bramante - Palazzo della Cancelleria - Coat of arms of Leo X (lost)
Plate 4: Michelangelo Buonarroti - Palazzo Farnese - Coat of arms of Paulus III
Plate 5: Domenico Fontana - Mostra dell'Acqua Felice - Coat of arms of Sixtus V
Plate 7: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - St Peter's - Coat of arms of Alexander VII in the Chair of St Peter
Plate 8: Francesco Borromini - Palazzo Barberini - Coat of arms of Urbanus VIII
Plate 9: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Propaganda Fide College - Coat of arms of Urbanus VIII>
Plates 10 and 26: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Colonnade of St Peter's Square - Coats of arms of Alexander VII
Plate 13: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - S. Andrea al Quirinale - Coat of arms of Innocentius X
Plates 15 and 18: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Fountain of the Four Rivers - Coats of arms of Innocentius X
Plate 16: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Statue of the Veronica in St Peter's - Coat of arms of Urbanus VIII
Plate 17: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - St Peter's - Coat of arms of Alexander VII
Plate 20: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Canopy of St Peter's - Coat of arms of Urbanus VIII
Plate 24: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Fountain at the Spanish Steps - Coat of arms of Urbanus VIII
Plates 27, 30 and 31: Francesco Borromini - St. John in Lateran - Coat of arms of Innocentius X
Plate 28: Francesco Borromini - Church in the Propaganda Fide Palace - Coat of arms of Alexander VII
Plate 32: Pietro da Cortona - St. Luca - Coat of arms of Urbanus VIII
Plate 33: Alessandro Algardi - St Peter's - Coat of arms of Leo XI
Plate 34: Alessandro Algardi - St. Nicola da Tolentino - Coat of arms of Innocentius X (family coat of arms)
Plate 36: Carlo Fontana - Piazza di S. Maria in Trastevere - Coat of arms of Innocentius XII
Plate 37: Francesco Fontana - Cortile della Pigna - Coat of arms of Clemens XI
Plate 39: Francesco Fontana - Chiesa de' SS. Apostoli - Coat of arms of Clemens XI
Plate 43: Carlo Maratti - St Peter's - Coat of arms of Innocentius XI
Plate 44: Martino Lunghi - Borghese Palace - Coat of arms of Paulus V
Plate 46: Carlo Rainaldi - St Peter's - Coat of arms of Innocentius X
Plate 48: Angelo Rossi - St Peter's - Coat of arms of Alexander VIII
Juvarra's masterpiece: Basilica di Superga
The portrait of Alexander VII

THE MAPS
Introduction to the 1852 map of Rome
The View from the Gianicolo Hill
Quadrant 1 - NW - St Peter's (clickable)
Quadrant 2 - NE - Spanish Steps (clickable)
Quadrant 3 - SW - Trastevere (clickable)
Quadrant 4 - SE - St John Lateran (clickable)
(additional views and maps are available in the Vasi section)

MARGINALIA
Introduction to Marginalia

Roman pages
A Stroll in St Saba
The Fortune of Borromini in the tourist guides
Fountains in the Courtyards of Rome
Flats for Rent in XVIIIth century Rome
The Silent Streets of Rome
A Family of Painters
A Roman journey on the Circle Line
Two Roman Wars
A Roman Triumph
Roman Feet and Sandals
Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic

Italian wanderings
Windows of Italy
Extravagant Capitals
Florentine Recollections
A Fortress With a View
An Italian Piazza
8:14 from Termini: A Medieval Town (Narni)
8:14 from Termini: A Steel Town (Terni)
8:14 from Termini: A Rugged Town (Spoleto)
8:14 from Termini: A Town on a Hill (Trevi)
8:14 from Termini: A Junction Town (Foligno and Montefalco)
8:14 from Termini: A Roman Town (Spello and Bevagna)
8:14 from Termini: A Holy Town (Assisi)
8:14 from Termini: A Rebellious Town (Perugia)
8:14 from Termini: Land of the Cesi (Cesi, San Gemini and Acquasparta)
8:14 from Termini: A Lonely Town (Todi)
Venice and the Levant

My travel notes
Two Fountains in Paris
The Walls of Nova Roma (Byzantium or Constantinople or Istanbul)
Venetian Fortresses in Greece
A City of the Ancient World (Antiochia)
Coast of the Pirates (Castles between Panfilia and Cilicia)
Caterina's Bequest (Frankish and Venetian monuments in Cyprus)
Prague Dominoes (a dominoes set with images of Prague)
The Saints' Bridge (in Prague)
An Italian Street in Prague
The Walls of Nikopolis
Hadrian's Athens
A Genoese Trade Route
The Last Roman Empire
Roman Ankara
The Walls of Nicaea
Cosmopolitan Alexandria
The Walls of Babilonia
Little Venice
A Company Owned Island
City of the last Roman Emperors
Roman Pergamum
The Capital of Asia (Ephesus)
Where Money was born (Sardis)
Aphrodite's City (Afrodisias)
Fortresses of the Sultans
A Forgotten Roman Town (Aizani)
In Search of Oil (Metellino)
A Roman Spa (Hierapolis)
Roman Smyrna (Izmir)
London's Roman Flavour
A Wealthy Doctor (the Asclepeion of Kos)
Fortresses of the Knights of Rhodes
Where the Leaves Spoke (the Shrine of Dodoni)
A Cruel Lord (Ali Pacha's Ioanina)
Where the Pythoness Spoke (the Oracle of Delphi)
Angkor in 3 Days
City of Twin Domes (Bursa)
They Went to the Theatre (archaeological sites in south-western Turkey)
Where the End Began (Edirne/Adrianopolis)
On the Long Road (Seljuk Towns in Turkey)

Special topics
Why most of Us are Children of a Lesser God
A 1754 History of Venice
A 1692 description of the Venetian Fortresses in Morea
Holy Vestments by GiuliaCarla Cecchi

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