* 1530s – Work begins on the Piazza del Campidoglio ( Capitoline Hill ), designed by Michelangelo.

He trained with the architect-engineer Domenico Fontana and collaborated as a junior partner with Giacomo Della Porta, whom he succeeded as the papacy's chief architect, under the patronage of Pope Sixtus V. He became the chief Papal architect of Rome in 1602, and thus was constantly at work on lesser projects such as altars and church furnishings, and with on-going projects of other designers, especially at St Peter's and in completing Michelangelo's project at the Campidoglio with the Palazzo Nuovo dicreetly designed to mirror Michelangelo's masterful Palazzo dei Conservatori.

This custom, first revived in Padua for Albertino Mussato, was followed by Petrarch's own crowning ceremony in the audience hall of the medieval senatorial palazzo on the Campidoglio on the 8th of April 1341.

During the revolt, the Campidoglio is held by the slaves for a lengthy period, along with the most important temples of Rome.

The existing design of the Piazza del Campidoglio and the surrounding palazzi was created by Renaissance artist and architect Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 – 1546.

Michelangelo's systematizing of the Campidoglio, engraved by Étienne Dupérac, 1568.

The bird's-eye view of the engraving by Étienne Dupérac shows Michelangelo's solution to the problems of the space in the Piazza del Campidoglio.

The Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli crowning the Campidoglio, Rome, is particularly associated with the Sibyl, because a medieval tradition referred the origin of its name to an otherwise unattested altar, said to have been raised to the " firstborn of God " by the emperor Augustus, who had been warned of his advent by the sibylline books: in the church the figures of Augustus and of the Tiburtine sibyl are painted on either side of the arch above the high altar.

" Petrarch asked to be examined by Robert before being crowned as poet in the Campidoglio in Rome ( 1341 ); his Latin epic Africa is dedicated to Robert, though it was not made available to readers until 1397, long after both Petrarch and Robert were dead.

Sculptural representations of the human form, feared and reviled as " idols " could be rehabilitated by reidentifying their subjects: the equestrian bronze Marcus Aurelius of the Campidoglio was respected as a representation of the Christian emperor Constantine, and in Pavia the Regisole acquired a civic role that preserved it.

In March 1433, she founded a monastery at Tor de ' Specchi, near the Campidoglio, in order to allow for a common life by those members of the confraternity who felt so called.

To build this monumental complex, extensive excavations were required: workers eliminated the sides of the Quirinal and Capitoline ( Campidoglio ) Hills, which closed the valley occupied by the Imperial forums toward the Campus Martius.

The Capitoline Museums are composed of three main buildings surrounding the Piazza del Campidoglio and interlinked by an underground gallery beneath the piazza.

Each year, on the Campidoglio, the Rabbi had to pay homage to the chief of the city counsellors (" Caporione "), receiving by him in exchange for it a kick to his bottom.

During the revolt, the Campidoglio was held by the slaves for a lengthy period, along with the most important temples of Rome.

* Michelangelo starts work on the Piazza del Campidoglio ( Capitoline Hill ).

He had Michelangelo relocate the ancient bronze of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius to the Capitoline Hill, where it became the centerpiece to the Piazza del Campidoglio.

Next to the older and much steeper stairs leading to the Aracoeli, Michelangelo devised a monumental wide-ramped stair ( the cordonata ), gradually ascending the hill to reach the high piazza, so that the Campidoglio resolutely turned its back on the Roman Forum that it had once commanded.

Famous Italian cordonate are in Rome leading to the Piazza del Campidoglio ( the " cordonata capitolina ", work of Michelangelo ) and, also in Rome, leading to the Piazza del Quirinale, and gives the name to a road ( Via della Cordonata ).

Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio, the Piazza Navona was transformed into a highly significant example of Baroque Roman architecture and art during the pontificate of Innocent X, who reigned from 1644-1655, and whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza.

In the 8th century it stood in the Lateran Palace in Rome, from where it was relocated in 1538 to the Piazza del Campidoglio ( Capitoline Hill ) during Michelangelo's redesign of the Hill.

* Capitoline Hill ( Capitolium, Campidoglio )

The Capitoline Hill cordonata ( centre of picture ) leading from Via del Teatro di Marcello to Piazza del Campidoglio.

Piazza del Campidoglio, on the top of Capitoline Hill, with the façade of Palazzo Senatorio.

The original is on display in the Capitoline Museums, with the one now standing in the open air of the Piazza del Campidoglio being a replica made in 1981 when the original was taken down for restoration.

The Capitoline Museums ( Italian Musei Capitolini ) are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy.

Statue of Emperor Constantine II as caesar on top of the Cordonata ( the monumental ladder climbing up to Piazza del Campidoglio ), in Rome.

This was part of a broader scheme of urbanization carried out under Sixtus IV, who swept the long-established markets from the Campidoglio in 1477 and decreed in a bull of 1480 the widening of streets and the first post-Roman paving, the removal of porticoes and other post-classical impediments to free public passage.

Roman depiction of the Tiber as a river-god ( Tiberinus ( god ) | Tiberinus ) with cornucopia at the Campidoglio, Rome.

Piazza del Campidoglio.

The award was presented in the Giulio Cesare Hall of the Campidoglio in Rome.

By the 16th century, Capitolinus had become Capitolino in Italian, with the alternative Campidoglio stemming from Capitolium.

Executing the design was slow: Little was actually completed in Michelangelo's lifetime ( the ‘’ Cordonata ’’ was not in place when Emperor Charles arrived, and the imperial party had to scramble up the slope from the Forum to view the works in progress ), but work continued faithfully to his designs and the Campidoglio was completed in the 17th century, except for the paving design, which was to be finished three centuries later.

Axiality and symmetry govern all parts of the Campidoglio.

The sole arched motif in the entire Campidoglio design is the segmental pediments over their windows, which give a slight spring to the completely angular vertical-horizontal balance of the design.

By bringing the central bay forward very slightly, and capping it with a pediment that breaks into the roof balustrade, Galilei provides an entrance doorway on a more-than-colossal scale, framed in the paired colossal Corinthian pilasters that tie together the façade in the manner introduced at Michelangelo's palace on the Campidoglio.

There he gained great experience in carving cameos and also attended the drawing academy at the Campidoglio, where he obtained first prize in sculpture.

The Via Flaminia starts at Porta del Popolo in the Aurelian Walls of Rome: Via del Corso ( Via Lata ), which connects the Campidoglio to the gate, can be considered the urban stretch of the Via Flaminia.

In 1266 – 1267 he worked in Rome for King Charles I of Anjou, portraying him in the famous statue housed in the Campidoglio.

The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

The property sales assistance program is designed to assist small business concerns that may wish to buy property offered for sale by the Federal Government.

Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation, but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which, as a reasonable probability, appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation.

For example, the importance of the Regulus 2, a very promising aerodynamic ship-to-surface missile designed to be launched by surfaced submarines, was greatly diminished by the successful acceleration of the much more advanced Polaris ballistic missile launched by submerged submarines.

Some 45 frequencies are assigned for use primarily by dominant Class 1, -- A or Class 1, -- B clear-channel stations, designed to operate with adequate power and to provide service -- both groundwave and ( at night ) skywave -- over large areas and at great distances, being protected against interference to the degree necessary to achieve this objective.

Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.

Called a `` Slo-Flo '' meter it was designed for this job by Power Plus Industries of Los Angeles, a key individual being Don Nelson.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

The layout of the sewer lines was designed by Henry W. Taylor, who was the engineer for the Manchester Village disposal plant.

The distances may be marked with indelible ink and a fine-point pen, by sewing fine threads into the fabric, or by a specially designed stamping machine.

Ask to see the modern tapestries of Paris and Rome designed by Lurcat.

Inside you will find the lovely Sibyls painted by Raphael and a chapel designed by Michelangelo.

The report, culminating a year long study of the ADC program in Cook county by a New York City welfare consulting firm, listed 10 long range recommendations designed to reduce the soaring ADC case load.

He said his plan is designed to `` meet the needs of those millions who have no wish to receive care at the taxpayers' expense, but who are nevertheless staggered by the drain on their savings -- or those of their children -- caused by an extended hospital stay ''.

She wore a court-length gown of organdy designed with bateau neckline and princesse skirt accented by lace appliques.

The Junior Achievement program is designed to give teenagers practical experience in business by allowing them actually to form small companies, under the guidance and sponsorship of business firms.

The production, designed by Simon Virsaladze, was completely traditional but traditional in the right way.

The biggest single act would doubtless be staged by Frankie himself: his Inaugural wardrobe had been designed by Hollywood Couturier Don Loper, who regularly makes up ladies' ensembles.