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Carlo Rainaldi (4 May 1611 – 8 February 1691) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 architect of the Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 period.

Born in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Rainaldi was one of the leading architects of 17th century Rome, known for a certain grandeur in his designs. He worked at first with his father, Girolamo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi

Girolamo Rainaldi was an Italy architect who worked on the whole in a conservative Mannerism, often with collaborating architects, yet was a successful competitor of Gian Lorenzo Bernini....
, a late Mannerist architect in Rome. After his father's death, he fully embraced the monumental Baroque style. He gained ascendancy in Rome when the Barberini papacy of Pope Urban VIII
Pope Urban VIII

Pope Urban VIII , born Maffeo Barberini, was Pope from 1623 to 1644. He was the last Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron of the arts and reformer of Church missions....
 was replaced by that of the more austere Pamphilj papacy of Innocent X.






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Carlo Rainaldi (4 May 1611 – 8 February 1691) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 architect of the Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 period.

Born in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Rainaldi was one of the leading architects of 17th century Rome, known for a certain grandeur in his designs. He worked at first with his father, Girolamo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi

Girolamo Rainaldi was an Italy architect who worked on the whole in a conservative Mannerism, often with collaborating architects, yet was a successful competitor of Gian Lorenzo Bernini....
, a late Mannerist architect in Rome. After his father's death, he fully embraced the monumental Baroque style. He gained ascendancy in Rome when the Barberini papacy of Pope Urban VIII
Pope Urban VIII

Pope Urban VIII , born Maffeo Barberini, was Pope from 1623 to 1644. He was the last Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron of the arts and reformer of Church missions....
 was replaced by that of the more austere Pamphilj papacy of Innocent X. His works include the façade of Sant'Andrea della Valle
Sant'Andrea della Valle

Sant'Andrea della Valle is a basilica churches of Rome Rome, in the rione of Sant'Eustachio ....
 (1661-65), the twin churches of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto, and Santa Maria in Campitelli
Santa Maria in Campitelli

Santa Maria in Campitelli or Santa Maria in Portico is a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary on the Piazza di Campitelli, Rome, Italy.The church contains a 25 cm-high icon of the Virgin Mary dated by style and dendrochronology to the 11th century, though it had previously been claimed by tradition to have appeared miraculously...
 (1663-67), considered his finest work. He was unable to complete the facade of Sant'Agnese in Agone
Sant'Agnese in Agone

Sant'Agnese in Agone is a basilica churches of Rome Rome. Construction started in 1652 under the planning of Carlo Rainaldi on the site where Saint Agnes was martyr in the Circus of Domitian, now the Piazza Navona in Rome....
 during work in 1653-57.

Beyond his work as an architect in stone, Rainaldi also designed stage sets for religious rituals and events. In 1650, he designed the sets for the Quarant'ore, or Forty Hours Devotion, held in the church of Il Gesù. In 1665, he designed a catafalque
Catafalque

A catafalque is a raised bier or platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of the deceased during a funeral or memorial service....
 commemorating the death
Roman Catafalque for Philip IV of Spain

On the death of Philip IV of Spain in 1665, clerics at the Roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore paid tribute by ordering the construction of an enormous temporary catafalque in the basilica's central nave....
 of Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV of Spain

Philip IV , was List of Spanish monarchs between 1621 and 1665, Sovereignty of the Spanish Netherlands, and List of Portuguese monarchs until 1640....
.

Rainaldi died in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
.