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Unfortunately, there is nothing to match Bernini’s great square to give you a proper perspective, and the church is dwarfed by the huge Queen Elizabeth Hotel and the Sun Life skyscraper.
Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.
The relish Versace brings to his clear vinyl dresses strewn with rhinestones, or to shiny-colored opaque ones punctuated with nifty cutouts, has traditional bravura and sprezzatura in it, suggesting Bernini at his most outré.
In the center, Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Fiumi) celebrates the great rivers of the four continents: the Americas (Río de la Plata), Europe (Danube), Asia (Ganges), and Africa (Nile).
Alternatively known as the Palazzo Barberini or the National Gallery of Antique Art (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica) (on the Via delle Quattro Fontane), another architectural battleground for arch-rivals Borromini and Bernini, is worth a visit as much for its splendid Baroque décor as for its collection of 13th–17th-century paintings.
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