Jacopo Celega was a fourteenth-century Italian

Italy

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 architect

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. Little is known of Calegna's biography, but some of his work remains today. Around 1330 he took over construction of the Venetian

Venice

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 church Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari – normally referred to only as the Frari – work that was finished by his son Pier Paolo in 1396.