Spada Palace

The Forced Perspective Gallery by Borromini

Palazzo Spada offers an extraordinary Forced Perspective Gallery made by the Baroque genius Francesco Borromini (1599-1667).  A Forced Perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger, or smaller than it actually is.  The Perspective was built for Cardinal Bernardino Spada in 1653. The Gallery retains its formidable ability to deceive […]