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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Fontana del Moro (section Giacomo della Porta)
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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San Petronio, Bologna (redirect from Giovanni da Modena)
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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San Gimignano (redirect from Porta San Giovanni (San Gimignano))
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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Santa Maria sopra Minerva (redirect from Santa Maria della Minerva)
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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Santa Maria Maggiore (redirect from Basilica di Santa Maria della Neve)
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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Sacra di San Michele (redirect from San Michele della Chiusa)
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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