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Born c.1537 • Rome • Italy
Died 1602 • Rome • Italy
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • Mannerism

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Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Italy
Il Gesù, Rome, Italy
Figure 63: Facade of the church of II Gesu, Rome, designed by Giacomo della Porta and Giacomo da Vignola, c. 1568-84.
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Facade of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, by Carlo Maderno, 1607.
Carlo Maderno
Italian architect
Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola, Italy, by Giacomo da Vignola, 1559–73
Giacomo da Vignola
Italian architect
Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger
Italian architect
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
Bernardo Rossellino
Italian sculptor
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Bartolommeo Ammannati
Italian sculptor and architect
Guarini, Guarino: dome of San Lorenzo
Guarino Guarini
Italian architect, priest, mathematician, and theologian
Juvarra, Filippo: Stupinigi's royal hunting lodge
Filippo Juvarra
Italian architect
Staircase of the Royal Palace, Caserta, Italy, by Luigi Vanvitelli, 1752
Luigi Vanvitelli
Italian architect
Church of Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome, by Carlo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi
Italian architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Smolny Cathedral
Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli
architect
Würzburg Residenz, designed by Balthasar Neumann, 18th century, Würzburg, Germany.
Balthasar Neumann
German architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Garden facade of Belvedere Palace, Vienna, by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Austrian architect
Royal Palace
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
Swedish architect

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