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Giacomo della Porta (c. 1533 – 1602) 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 and sculptor, who worked for many important buildings in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica

The Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian language as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is located within the Vatican City....
. He was born at Porlezza
Porlezza

Porlezza is a comune on Lake Lugano in the Province of Como in the Italy region Lombardy, located about 60 km north of Milan and about 25 km north of Como....
, Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
.


a Porta was influenced by and collaborated with Michelangelo
Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
, and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism....
, his teacher of architecture.






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Giacomo della Porta (c. 1533 – 1602) 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 and sculptor, who worked for many important buildings in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica

The Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian language as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is located within the Vatican City....
. He was born at Porlezza
Porlezza

Porlezza is a comune on Lake Lugano in the Province of Como in the Italy region Lombardy, located about 60 km north of Milan and about 25 km north of Como....
, Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
.

Il Gesu

Biography

Della Porta was influenced by and collaborated with Michelangelo
Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
, and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism....
, his teacher of architecture. After 1563 he carried out Michelangelo's plans for the rebuilding of the capital's open spaces: in the Capitoline, della Porta intervened on the façade and steps of Palazzo Senatorio, and the Cordonata
Cordonata

Cordonata is a sloping road composed of transversal stripes , which are made with Rock or bricks. It has a form almost similar to a flight of steps, but allows the transit of horses and donkeys....
 capitolina. After the death of Vignola in 1573, he continued the construction of Il Gesù, and in 1584 modified its façade after his own designs. From 1573 he was leader for the ongoing reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica, and later, in collaboration with Domenico Fontana
Domenico Fontana

Domenico Fontana was a Switzerland-born Italy architect of the late Renaissance.He was born at Melide, Switzerland on the Lake Lugano and died at Naples....
, completed the cupola in 1588-1590.

Giacomo della Porta completed much of Rome's fountains from 16th century. These include the fountains in Piazza del Popolo
Piazza del Popolo

The Piazza del Popolo is a square in Rome. The name in modern Italian language literally means "piazza of the people", but historically it derives from the poplars after which the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name....
, the Fontana di Nettuno and Fontana del Moro in Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona

Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It follows the plan of an ancient Ancient Rome Circus , the 1st century Stadium of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones : It was known as 'Circus Agonalis' ....
.

He died in Rome in 1602.

Selected works

  • Oratorio del SS. Crocifisso (1562-1568)
  • Chiesa del Gesù (1571-1575)
  • Fountains at the Palazzo Borghese
    Palazzo Borghese

    Palazzo Borghese is the main seat of the Borghese family in Rome; it was nicknamed il Cembalo due to its unusual trazezoidal groundplan; its short front faces the Tiber....
     (1573)
  • Fountains in Piazza Colonna
    Piazza Colonna

    Piazza Colonna is a piazza at the center of the Colonna in the historic heart of Rome, Italy. It is named for the marble Column of Marcus Aurelius which has stood there since 193 CE....
     (1574)
  • Small fountains at Piazza Navona
    Piazza Navona

    Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It follows the plan of an ancient Ancient Rome Circus , the 1st century Stadium of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones : It was known as 'Circus Agonalis' ....
     (1574)
  • One fountain at the Piazza della Rotonda
    Pantheon, Rome

    The Pantheon is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt circa 126 AD during Hadrian's reign....
  • Palazzo Senatorio at the Capitol Hill (1573-1602)
  • Palazzo della Sapienza
    University of Rome La Sapienza

    Sapienza University of Rome is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome, Italy. It is the largest European university and the most ancient of the city's three state-funded universities; Sapienza was founded in 1303, University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1982, and Third University of Rome in 1992....
     (1578-1602)
  • Palazzo Capizucchi (1580)
  • Santa Maria dei Monti (1580)
  • Sant'Atanasio dei Greci (1581)
  • Façade of San Luigi dei Francesi
    San Luigi dei Francesi

    San Luigi dei Francesi is a Churches of Rome Rome, not far from Piazza Navona.The church was designed by Giacomo della Porta and built by Domenico Fontana between 1518 and 1589: the works could be completed through the personal intervention of Catherine de' Medici, who donated it some possessions in the area....
     (1589)
  • Fontana delle Tartarughe (1584)
  • Santa Maria Scala Coeli
    Santa Maria Scala Coeli

    Santa Maria Scala Coeli , church on the site of Paul of Tarsus's prison, on Via delle Tre Fontane in Rome.The present church was built by Giacomo della Porta on top of an earlier one....
  • Palazzo Marescotti (1585)
  • Palazzo Serlupi (1585)
  • SS. Trinità de' Monti
    Trinità dei Monti

    Trinit? dei Monti is a famous church in Rome. It is best known for its scenographic dominance above the Spanish Steps that descend into the Piazza di Spagna....
     (1586)
  • Fontana di Piazza alli Monti (1589)
  • Cupola of St. Peter's Basilica
    St. Peter's Basilica

    The Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian language as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is located within the Vatican City....
     (1588-90)
  • Fountains at the Piazza di 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...
     (1589)
  • Fountains opposite SS. Venanzio e Ansovino (1589)
  • Fontana della Terrina (1590)
  • Palazzo Fani (1598)
  • San Paolo alle Tre Fontane
    San Paolo alle Tre Fontane

    San Paolo alle Tre Fontane, in English, St Paul at the Three Fountains is a church dedicated to St Paul the Apostle, at the presumed site of his martyrdom in Rome....
     (1599)
  • San Nicolò in Carcere
    San Nicola in Carcere

    San Nicola in Carcere is a titular church churches of Rome Rome near the Forum Boarium in rione Ripa ....
     (1599)
  • Palazzo Albertoni Spinola (1600)
  • Villa Aldobrandini (1600-02) in Frascati
    Frascati

    Frascati is a town and commune in the province of Rome in the Latium region of central Italy. It is located 20 km south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum....
  • Cappella Aldobrandini (1600-02) in Santa Maria sopra Minerva
    Santa Maria sopra Minerva

    Santa Maria sopra Minerva is a basilica churches of Rome Rome. The church, located in the Piazza della Minerva in the Campus Martius region, is considered the only Gothic architecture church in Rome, and is the city's principal Dominican Order church....