Cardinal Pamphilj Builds a Place.

The article examines Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphilj's use of architecture as a means of self-representation. He commissioned a palace that doubled the size of his ancestral home in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. The palace offered more space to accommodate separate households for the cardinal and his brother. According to the article, the palace represented a culminating moment in the efforts of the Pamphilj to forge and articulate an identity in Rome. It adds that Pamphilj's palace embodied the aspiration of several generations of the family to gain a visible and impressive presence in the Piazza Navona.