Laura Itzkowitz The centuries-old Piazza Navona is perhaps one of the best-known public squares in Rome. People sipping coffees while watching street performers and artists fill the square.

The Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona: Constructing Identity in Early Modern Rome ... 2014–15 Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, ...

In the mid-17th century, Pope Innocent X commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini—Rome’s premiere Baroque sculptor—to redecorate two of the fountains in the city’s famous Piazza Navona.