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    Giacomo della Porta (1533–1602) was an Italian architect and sculptor. Most likely born in Genoa or Porlezza, Italy, his work was inspired by famous Renaissance...
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    Giambattista della Porta (Italian pronunciation: [dʒambatˈtista della ˈpɔrta]; 1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an...
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    village, of uncertain attribution. Velletri: City Hall; with Giacomo della Porta. Vetralla: Porta Romana; of uncertain attribution. Franciosoni Palace; of...
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    involved in the construction were Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, architect of the Farnese family, and Giacomo della Porta. The church was built on the same...
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    tritons, dolphins, and a conch shell. It was originally designed by Giacomo della Porta in the 1570s with later contributions from Gian Lorenzo Bernini in...
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    Italian family of masons, sculptors and architects. His father Giovanni Battista della Porta was a sculptor. He trained in his uncle's workshop in Genoa...
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    his honor. Work initially started around 1590 under the designs of Giacomo della Porta and Pier Paolo Olivieri, and under the patronage of Cardinal Gesualdo...
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    building construction was subsequently executed by Sangallo and Giacomo della Porta. In 1559, Michelangelo was asked by Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of...
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    XIII in opera forse by Giacomo della Porta or, it is argued, Giacomo del Duca, who had collaborated with Michelangelo on the Porta Pia. The confusion is...
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    1525-1855. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Porta, Giovanni (1 January 1995). Selected sacred music from the Ospedale della Pietà. A-R Editions, Inc. pp. 7–8....
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    Areopagite and King Louis IX of France. The church was designed by Giacomo della Porta and built by Domenico Fontana between 1518 and 1589, and completed...
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    work was completed. The work was carried out by Giacomo Del Duca, who also built Porta San Giovanni. Most experts consider that Michelangelo was concerned...
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    started in 1538 by Giacomo Ranuzzi. However, it remains unfinished. The main doorway (Porta Magna) was decorated by Jacopo della Quercia of Siena with...
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    Within Rome, the huge domed church of Sant'Andrea della Valle was designed by Giacomo della Porta before the completion of St Peter's Basilica, and subsequently...
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    overlooking the Piazza Colonna and the Via del Corso, was begun in 1562 by Giacomo della Porta. On 28 January 1578, the consistorial lawyer Pietro Aldobrandini...
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    San Giovanni a Porta Latina (Italian: "Saint John Before the Latin Gate") is a Basilica church in Rome, Italy, near the Porta Latina (on the Via Latina)...
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    centuries. The main gates are Porta San Giovanni on the ridge extending south, Porta San Matteo to the north west and Porta S. Jacopo to the north east...
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  • Carlo Porta (1775–1821), Italian poet in the Milanese dialect Costanzo Porta (1528–1601), Italian composer of the Renaissance Giacomo della Porta (1532–1602)...
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    The Aldobrandini chapel was designed by Giacomo della Porta but it is Carlo Maderno that completed della Porta's project (after 1602). It was consecrated...
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    originally Arian, the only Arian foundation to survive in Rome) San Giovanni a Porta Latina (late-5th century) Santa Cecilia in Trastevere San Crisogono...
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    the monument of Clement VIII, Lanfranco Cesi Chapel tombs by Guglielmo della Porta Altar, confessio and Presepio (crib) sculptures by Arnolfo di Cambio...
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    another part at the gate of Porta San Paolo; another at the gate of Porta San Giovanni; and the rest at the gate of Porta del Popolo. Similarly, Stendhal...
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    likely helped by Giacomo Cozzarelli. The work was brought here from the now-razed Olivetan monastery of San Benedetto fuori Porta Tufi in Siena. An inventory...
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  • the architects Giacomo Della Porta, Orazio Torriani, and Giovanni Battista Soria. Della Greca replaced the latter at his death. Della Greca completed...
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    Eugene of Savoy (1698–1736), military commander vacant (1736–1742) Giovanni Giacomo Millo [it] (1742–1757), cardinal vacant (1757–1759) Carlo Alberto Guidobono...
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    surmounted by an Egyptian obelisk. The fountain was constructed by Giacomo della Porta under Pope Gregory XIII in 1575, and the Pantheon obelisk was added...
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    Fountain of the Piazza dei Monti, by Giacomo Della Porta, (1589) illustration from Fontane di Roma by Giovanni Batista Falda, about 1670 Fountain of...
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  • (1578–1635), artist. Giovanni Battista Casanova, painter, brother of Giacomo Casanova. Giovanni Battista Castello, painter. Giovanni Battista Casti (1724–1803)...
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    Construction of Porta Nuova began in 1532, focusing initially on the elevation toward the countryside, under the jurisdiction of Podestà Giovanni Dolfin and...
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    Catholic Europe, its façade is a close variant of that provided by Giacomo Della Porta for the Church of the Gesù, the Jesuit Mother Church in Rome. Also...
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