Giacomo della Porta

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St. Peter's Dome
Façade of the church of Gesù in Rome.
Sacro Cuore Chapel
Palazzetto Inside Palazzo Albertoni Spinola Perspective
Fontana delle Tartarughe
Christ delivering the keys of Heaven to St. Peter (1594), Santa Pudenziana, Rome

Giacomo della Porta (1532–1602) was an

sculptor, who worked on many important buildings in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica.[2] He was born at Porlezza, Lombardy
and died in Rome.

Biography

Giacomo Della Porta was born in the

Palazzo Senatorio, and the Cordonata
or the ramped steps up to the Piazza del Campidoglio.

After the death of Vignola in 1573, he continued the construction of

Jesuit
order, and in 1584 modified its façade after his own designs.

He also worked on the construction of Palazzo Albertoni Spinola by acting on the load-bearing structures and internal partitions creating, through the orthogonality of the entrance gallery and the entrance hall of the Palace, a unique prospective visual effect.

From 1573 he was in charge of the ongoing construction of St. Peter's Basilica, and later, in collaboration with Domenico Fontana, completed Michelangelo's dome between 1588-1590.

Della Porta and Fontana were not mere performers of Michelangelo's drawings; in fact, they had the merit of the technical execution of a firm that sanctioned an important stage of technological advances at the end of the sixteenth century. Not only did they make a noticeable change in the bend curvature of Michelangelo's projected design, making it closer to the

St. Paul outside the Walls
.

Giacomo della Porta completed a number of Rome's fountains from the 16th century; these included the fountains in the

La Fontana del Moro in the Piazza Navona and Fontana delle Tartarughe
very important for the Roman legends.

He died suddenly in 1602 coming back to Rome from

Villa Belvedere commissioned by the Aldobrandini family
.

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "Giacomo della Porta." Encyclopædia Britannica. Web. 18 Jun. 2011.
  2. ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Giacomo della Porta" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  • Katherine Rinne, "Fluid Precision: Giacomo della Porta and the Acqua Vergine fountains of Rome", in Landscapes of Memory and Experience, ed. Jan Birksted (London, 2000), 183-201.
  • Katherine W. Rinne, "Between Precedent and Experiment: the Restoration of the Acqua Vergine (1560-1570)", in L. Roberts, S. Schaffer and P. Dear (eds.), The mindful hand: inquiry and invention from the late Renaissance to early industrialisation (Edita/University of Chicago Press: 2007), 95-115.

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