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BAROCCHIO (or BAROZZI), GIACOMO

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BAROCCHIO (or BAROZZI), GIACOMO , called DA VIGNOLA (1507-1573), See also:Italian architect, was See also:born at Vignola in the Modenese territory on the Ist of See also:October 1507. His See also:early See also:work was conducted at See also:Bologna, See also:Piacenza, See also:Assisi and See also:Perugia, until he was summoned to See also:Rome as papal architect under See also:Pope See also:Julius III. In 1564 he succeeded See also:Michelangelo as the architect of St See also:Peter's, and executed various portions of that fabric, besides a variety of See also:works in Rome. The designs for the See also:Escorial were also supplied by him. • He is the author of an excellent work on the Five Orders of See also:Architecture (Rome, 1563), and another work on See also:Practical See also:Perspective (Rome, i583). To his extensive acquirements and exquisite See also:taste were superadded an amenity of See also:manners and a See also:noble generosity that won the See also:affection and admiration of all who knew him. He died in Rome on the 7th of See also:July 1573. He was an eminent upholder of the classic See also:style at a See also:period when the style known as See also:baroque was corrupting the architecture of See also:Italy. The See also:term baroque owes its origin to the See also:Spanish word barrueco or berrueco, an imperfectly See also:round See also:pearl, and is not derived from the architect Barocchio, whose name so m. 74417 much resembles it, Yet it is curious that it was much used to describe a debased See also:form of architecture encouraged by the See also:Jesuits whose See also:church in Rome was built by Barocchio.

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