• Della Porta is an Italian surname. It may refer to: Antonella Della Porta (1927–2002), Italian actress Antonio della Porta (died 1702), Swiss Baroque architect...
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    Giambattista della Porta (Italian pronunciation: [dʒambatˈtista della ˈpɔrta]; 1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an...
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    Giacomo della Porta (1532–1602) was an Italian architect and sculptor, who worked on many important buildings in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica...
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    Marco, Paolo di Jacopo del Fattorino, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects. He spent all...
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    Within Rome, the huge domed church of Sant'Andrea della Valle was designed by Giacomo della Porta before the completion of St Peter's Basilica, and subsequently...
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    Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta (Corsican: Oraziu Francescu Bastianu Sebastiani di A Porta; 11 November 1771 – 20 July 1851) was a French...
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  • Donatella della Porta (born 1956, in Catania) is an Italian sociologist and political scientist, who is Professor of political science and political sociology...
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    Guglielmo della Porta (c. 1500–1577) was an Italian architect and sculptor of the late Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was born to a prominent North...
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    dolphins, and a conch shell. It was originally designed by Giacomo della Porta in the 1570s with later contributions from Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the...
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    Giacomo della Porta. The dome, as built, has a much steeper projection than the dome of the model. It is generally presumed that it was della Porta who made...
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    English, Natural Magic) is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Its popularity ensured it was republished...
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    [citation needed] Despite this incident, della Porta remained religiously devout and became a lay Jesuit brother. Porta's involvement with the Inquisition puzzles...
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    Giacomo della Porta was involved in the construction of the cross-vault, dome, and the apse. The revision of Vignola's façade design by della Porta has offered...
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  • [citation needed] Despite this incident, della Porta remained religiously devout and became a lay Jesuit brother. Porta's involvement with the Inquisition puzzles...
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    physician-philosopher Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682), and the Italian Giambattista Della Porta (1535–1615). Browne in his Religio Medici (1643) discusses the possibility...
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  • Ardicino della Porta the Younger (It.: Ardicino della Porta, iuniore) (1434–1493) (called the Cardinal of Aléria) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop...
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    Antonella Della Porta (August 18, 1927 Reggio Calabria, Italy – July 16, 2002 Rome, Italy) was an Italian actress. She was an Italian actress active in...
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    surmounted by an Egyptian obelisk. The fountain was constructed by Giacomo della Porta under Pope Gregory XIII in 1575, and the Pantheon obelisk was added to...
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    Areopagite and King Louis IX of France. The church was designed by Giacomo della Porta and built by Domenico Fontana between 1518 and 1589, and completed through...
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    Bianca Della Porta (born 23 March 1991 in Dorval, Quebec) is a Canadian ice hockey and rugby player who has played for professional teams in both sports...
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    Academia Secretorum Naturae was founded in Naples in 1560 by Giambattista della Porta, a noted polymath. In Italian it was called Accademia dei Segreti, the...
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  • Joseph Della Porta was a department store located in The Square, Shrewsbury. Founder Joseph Della Porta came to England in 1847 from Italy, and by 1857...
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    Aldobrandini chapel was designed by Giacomo della Porta but it is Carlo Maderno that completed della Porta's project (after 1602). It was consecrated in...
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  • Antonio della Porta (c. 1631, Manno, Lugano - 3 August 1702, Bayreuth) was a Swiss Baroque architect and master builder, mainly active in Bohemia, Silesia...
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    work of Roman architects, notably the Church of the Gesù by Giacomo della Porta (consecrated 1584) façade and colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica by Carlo...
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    Fountain of Neptune (1574) also created by Giacomo della Porta; the statue of Neptune, by Antonio Della Bitta, was added in 1878 to create a balance with...
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  • The Chiesa della Madonna della Porta is a Roman Catholic church in Racconigi, Province of Cuneo, region of Piedmont, Italy. The church was erected and...
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    the Stadium of Domitian. The fountains at either end are by Giacomo della Porta; the Neptune fountain to the north, (1572) shows the God of the Sea spearing...
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    the Piazza Colonna and the Via del Corso, was begun in 1562 by Giacomo della Porta. On 28 January 1578, the consistorial lawyer Pietro Aldobrandini, brother...
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    1578 and 1582. Its current facade was built by Giacomo della Porta and Girolamo Rainaldi. Porta did the completion of the façade of the Palazzo Senatorio...
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