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    Bernardo Antonio Vittone (19 August 1704 – 19 October 1770) was an Italian architect and writer. He was one of the three most important Baroque architects...
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  • Vittone is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amor Vittone (born 1972), South African singer Bernardo Antonio Vittone (1704–1770)...
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    intricately domed church of Santa Chiara by the late-Baroque architect, Bernardo Antonio Vittone and the church of St. Andrew, the facade of which was designed...
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  • completed unfinished projects of Bernardo Antonio Vittone. He began his career in the exuberant baroque of Vittone, but moved into more neoclassical...
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    Santa Chiara, Bra (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    small domed church was designed by the late-Baroque architect Bernardo Antonio Vittone. A community of Clarissan nuns was assembled in Bra by 1632, and...
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    Maddalena (late-18th century): small late-Baroque church designed by Bernardo Antonio Vittone and housing the relics of Blessed Margaret of Savoy. The city museums...
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    Michele Arcangelo: this church was built in 1759 using a design by Bernardo Antonio Vittone. It has an octagonal dome decorated with stucco. Church and convent...
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    Santa Maria Maggiore, Racconigi (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    utilizing designs by Carlo Castelli with possible contribution of Bernardo Antonio Vittone to the decoration. The brick facade is notable for an oval fresco...
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    San Giovanni Vincenzo, Sant'Ambrogio di Torino (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    Piedmont, Italy. The church was designed by the Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vittone. A church at the site was present since the 11th century, allied to...
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  • Capella di Arciconfraternita Santa Croce, Caramagna Piemonte (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    altar of this small church was designed by the Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vittone. A compagnia (akin to a fraternity) of lay flagellants began construction...
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  • San Luigi Gonzaga, Corteranzo (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    church was designed in 1738 by the prominent Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vittone. The erection of a small church at this rural location, presumably...
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    Santissimo Salvatore, Borgomasino (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    architect Bernardo Vittone, but construction was started posthumously in 1773, since Vittone had died in 1770. Funds remained tight, and Vittone's design...
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  • For this project, he collaborated with fr:Georg Caspar Prenner, Bernardo Antonio Vittone, Giovanni Battista Borra, Giuseppe Bernardi, fr:Antoine Hérisset...
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    Santuario Sant'Ignazio, Pessinetto (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    mountain and the main altar, and the second hold statue of St Ignatius. Bernardo Vittone helped design the altar. Santuario Sant'Ignazio official website. Descrizione...
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  • Confraternita di Santa Croce, Villanova Mondovì (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    lateral flanks of the brick facade and elaborate dome was designed by Bernardo Vittone and Francesco Gallo. The layout of this oratory is centralized with...
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    Santa Maria della Neve, Pecetto Torinese (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    designed in 1730, was one of the first works of the Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vittone. The parish church was erected from 1739 to 1742. The church has a...
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    Sanctuary of Valinotto (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    dome, was designed in 1738 by the prominent Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vittone. A small hermitage at the site, dedicated to the Visitation of the...
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    Santa Maria Assunta, Grignasco (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    The small parish church was designed by the Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vittone. The church was erected starting in 1751 and completed in 1770. the...
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    San Gaudenzio, Ivrea (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    with a convex front and an oval tympanum appears influenced by Bernardo Antonio Vittone. Some attribute the design to Luigi Andrea Guibert, active in Ivrea...
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    Santa Maria degli Angeli, Chivasso (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    refurbishment starting in 1737 under the designs of Bernardo Vittone and his colleague Paolo Lorenzo Garrone. Vittone helped erect, for example, the bell tower...
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    Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio church, Cambiano (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    of Piedmont, Italy. The church was designed Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vittone. A parish church, existing in 1094, was dedicated only to St Vincent...
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    church of Santa Maria degli Angeli owes some of its design to Bernardo Antonio Vittone. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chivasso. Chivasso railway...
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    Santa Chiara, Turin (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    style, between 1742 and 1745 under the direction of architect Bernardo Antonio Vittone, himself brother of two nuns of the Order. The Poor Clares would...
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    San Michele Arcangelo, Borgo d'Ale (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    of Borgo d'Ale. This was one of the last designs by the architect Bernardo Vittone, completed posthumously from 1771 to 1778. The facade has a Borrominesque...
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    Santa Maria Maddalena, Foglizzo (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    present parish church was erected from 1741 to 1746 using designs by Bernardo Vittone. The interior has a single nave occupying an elongated octagonal layout...
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  • architectural draughtsman. Borra was born in Dogliani. Studying under Bernardo Antonio Vittone from 1733 to 1736 (producing 10 plates for his teacher's Istruzione...
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    Santa Maria Maddalena, Alba (category Bernardo Antonio Vittone buildings)
    prominent Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vittone, and completed in 1749. The church was commissioned from the architect Vittone by the Conte Carlo Giacinto...
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    vaults, but not how to build them. Building on Fontana's work, Bernardo Antonio Vittone published Istruzioni elementari dell’architettura civile in 1760...
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    their stead in a late-baroque classicizing design initially by Bernardo Antonio Vittone and completed by Mario Quarini. The original church had three naves...
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    architect was desingned by Giovanni Antonio Sevalle, while the orphanage was designed by Bernardo Antonio Vittone. The main altar (1775) was designed...
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