Desperately Seeking Francesco

i would unironically read borromini x reader fanfiction

#Borromini #Francesco Borromini #più lui solo che tutti gli altri insieme

... it would probably be better than many of the Borromini "novels" out there

never did i think i would be drawing college au art in 2026. never did i think that said art would be of baroque architect francesco borromini

#francesco borromini #borromini #più lui solo che tutti gli altri insieme #he would probably have some weird pebbles at the bottom of his bag

Awww the red shoelaces ❤️

...and The Smiths tshirt!

#borromini #ci siamo persi poi #baroque architecture #🐍

pov ur artistic rival just made some bullshit!!

#Borromini #Francesco Borromini #nei palazzi nobiliari desideri primordiali #actually I gifted myself a ring based on this window design #più lui solo che tutti gli altri insieme #🐝

i love how Borromini's windows on the Palazzo Barberini absolutely mog all of the other windows... yes they are small but OMG

like hello. she's amazing.

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👀 not sure whether this is hilarious or terrifying...

(and, of course it's all about suicide and Bernini)

#Borromini #Francesco Borromini #più lui solo che tutti gli altri insieme #AI Borromini is pretty bland #or blandly pretty #but can't move his arms in a coherent way #francesco castelli dramaqueening in Rome since the 1620s #still dramaqueening in the Age of AI

Anyone in Rome next week? 🤣

I'm not sure I would want either of them as a dinner companion...

Info here and menu here

#borrominitour #but make it culinary #borromini #francesco borromini #ci siamo persi poi #🐍

Francesco Borromini, drawings and measures of the the so called Cathedra Petri, 1630.

From the exhibition Bernini e i Barberini, Palazzo Barberini.

#francesco borromini #borromini #san pietro #roma #prendi bene la misura

Francesco Borromini, drawings for a window and the main hall portal of Palazzo Barberini, 1631.

From the exhibition Bernini e i Barberini, Palazzo Barberini.

#borromini #francesco borromini #baroque architecture #nei palazzi nobiliari desideri primordiali #🐝#riparati al fresco dei musei

Borromini in fiction: further reading

the one in which he is murdered for preposterous reasons

the one in which he is murdered for preposterous reasons and there are spies

the one in which he is murdered for preposterous reasons and there are fascist Bernini fanboys

the one with the horse and the ghosts in the church

the one in which he has conversations with demonic Platonic solids and a fling with one of Bernini's sisters and then seduces the princess Aldobrandini Pamphili wearing nothing under his cape

the one in which padre Spada molests him when he's young and feverish

the one which is actually about his maid that is very moving

the one in which he meets Francesco Totti

the one in which Bernini walks around Rome pondering their relationship

the one in which he's mistaken for Michelangelo and falls in love, but (a cartoonish version of) Bernini gets in the way

I had no idea people would be interested in this, but here's the book list

Disclaimer: I do not recommend all of these, I do not recommend many of these, I can't even believe I read some of these.

Massimo Aureli, Il mistero Borromini

Fabio Bussotti, Le lacrime di Borromini

Francesco e Max Morini, Rosso Barocco

Massimo Capacciola, Il testamento di Borromini

Ruggero Orlando, Francesco

Andreas Bellasi, Borromini

Thierry Vila, Le bâtisseur

Enrico Maida e Fulvia Strano, Il talento di Francesco. Totti e Borromini: due fuoriclasse a confronto

Juan Carlos Arnuncio, Cosas del señor Francesco

Peter Prange, La congiura di Bernini

Please, let me know if you know of something else I missed

#borromini #francesco borromini #dicono di francesco #più lui solo che tutti gli altri insieme #but no one seems to be able to give him a convincing voice #nei palazzi nobiliari desideri primordiali

Adding this in case someone is interested

Nothing preposterous, a bit bland.

Proof that, sometimes, Bernini did pay the employees, even Borromini.

Agostino Ciampelli was, obviously, another of his many brothers in law.

From the exhibition Bernini e i Barberini, Palazzo Barberini.

#borromini #francesco borromini #ci siamo persi poi #san pietro #🐍#borrominitour #i lavori del giovane Castelli #ormai Borromini #riparati al fresco dei musei

Francesco Borromini's drawings of San Giovanni in Laterano before he started revamping it, which for reasons are very dear to my heart.

Screenshot from this video (which is more interesting than I expected, given the title)

#francesco borromini #borromini #gentile da fabriano #san giovanni in laterano #roma #baroque architecture #io ho cambiato prospettiva

#borromini #più lui solo che tutti gli altri insieme

Man one day I'll be able to draw him, and nobody is prepared for what will happen then (nothing) (nothing will happen)

I want a sitcom where all the scenes happen in Borromini's room and we just see him alone working at 4AM

#my dream sitcom is set during the plague of 1657 #when the pope locked himself and the major artists of the city inside the quirinale #borromini and bernini are both there #borromini is quietly spiteful #bernini trolls around #the pope considers sending both of them back home #but the power of their combined bloodymindedness solves whatever problem arises #da cortona only wants to go home #borromini wasn't actually there but this sort of thing has never stopped anyone

😍

#francesco borromini #borromini

They sort of look like animatic sketches XD