Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

F. Borromini, Design for Piazza Navona

Another obelisk, found outside the city on the Appian Way, became the centerpiece of Baroque Rome’s most spectacular space—the Piazza Navona. Borromini’s lovely but plain design was rejected in favor of the splendid one by Bernini, one of his most astonishing creations.



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