The Archtecture of Cortona Pietro Berrettini Da
Cortona Pietro Berrettini Da (1596 -1669) was one of the pioneers, with Bernini and BorrominI, of Roman Baroque in the history of architecture. He was a famous architect for his unique taste of dramatic composition and grandiose planning. He was not trained as an architect but a painter, and his earliest architectural works reveal an unexpected boldness. The Villa Pigneto was one of the earliest examples of a concave façade, and the slightly concave front of SS. Martina e Luca predates that of Borromini’s S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
Several works reveal Cortona’s Tuscan origins and his debt to Michelangelo; the recessed columns inside SS. Martina e Luca, for example, recall those of the Laurentian Library. The highly sculptural and dynamic approach to wall articulation explored here, with its emphasis on the close packing of columns and other elements in tightly unified composition, becomes one of the hallmarks of Croton’s architecture.
His masterpiece was the façade of Santa Maria della Pace. The extending of the two-storey church front around the sides of the remodelled piazza as a gradual crescendo from the flat articulation at the sides to the bold projection of the columnar portico in a series of inter-related and complementary curves.
His mojor works including: Villa Pigneto, Rome, c. 1625 (destroyed). SS. Martina e Luca, Rome, from 1635. Santa Maria della Pace, Rome (facade), from 1656. Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome (facade), 1658-62. K. Noehles, La Cbiesa di SS Luca e Martina nen* Opera di Pietro da Cortona, Rome, 1970.
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