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    Domenico Fontana (1543 – 28 June 1607) was an Italian architect of the late Renaissance, born in today's Ticino. He worked primarily in Italy, at Rome...
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    Porta and Domenico Fontana brought the dome to completion in 1590, the last year of the reign of Sixtus V. His successor, Gregory XIV, saw Fontana complete...
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    1586. The work was carried out under the direction of the architect Domenico Fontana who required thirteen months of preparatory work, 900 men, 75 horses...
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    a full-sized wooden mock-up erected within months of his election. Domenico Fontana, the assistant of Giacomo Della Porta in the Basilica's construction...
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    France. The church was designed by Giacomo della Porta and built by Domenico Fontana between 1518 and 1589, and completed through the personal intervention...
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    Roman projects, such as the stilted designs Acqua Felice and Paola by Domenico Fontana in Piazza San Bernardo (1585–87) or the customary embellished geometric...
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    Acqua Felice aqueduct restored by Pope Sixtus V. It was designed by Domenico Fontana and built in 1585–1588. It is located at the intersection of Largo...
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  • Domenico Fontana (born January 16, 1943, in Marano Vicentino) is a retired Italian professional football player. He played 12 seasons (186 games, 13 goals)...
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    the present building was begun in the 17th century by the architect Domenico Fontana. Intended to house King Philip III of Spain on a visit never fulfilled...
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    occupied with the care of his property, the Villa Montalto, erected by Domenico Fontana close to the cardinal's beloved church on the Esquiline Hill, overlooking...
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    new part of Rome. The engineer was Giovanni Fontana, brother of Sixtus' engineer-architect Domenico Fontana, who recorded that the very day the new pope...
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    when, by order of pope Sixtus V, the whole column was restored by Domenico Fontana and adapted to the ground level of that time. Also a bronze statue...
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  • politician Domenico Fontana, Italian Renaissance architect Domenico Gabrielli, Italian composer and cello player Domenico Gagini, Italian sculptor Domenico Gallo...
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    superstructure. Lifting tower A lifting tower was used to great effect by Domenico Fontana to relocate the monolithic Vatican obelisk in Rome. Its weight of 361...
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  • magus Giovanni Fontana (architect) (1540–1614), Dominican friar and late-Mannerist architect, brother of Domenico Fontana Giovanni Fontana (bishop of Ferrara)...
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    flat near the Trevi Fountain. The palace's façade was designed by Domenico Fontana. Its Great Chapel was designed by Carlo Maderno. It contains frescos...
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    Maximus. It was re-erected here in the piazza by the architect-engineer Domenico Fontana in 1589 as part of the urban plan of Sixtus V. The piazza also formerly...
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    known date that any part was unearthed was in 1592, when architect Domenico Fontana, while digging an underground aqueduct to the mills of Torre Annunziata...
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    Nonni, called Mascherino; under Pope Sixtus V, works were continued by Domenico Fontana (the main facade on the Piazza) and Carlo Maderno, and by Gian Lorenzo...
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    by his favorite architect Domenico Fontana. The architect he employed, immediately upon his election, was Domenico Fontana, who was engaged in alterations...
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    eastern facade of the building was demolished under the direction of Domenico Fontana. The stones obtained were used for the basement of the Flaminio Obelisk...
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    Pope Nicholas IV, designed by Domenico Fontana in 1574. Bust of Costanzo Patrizi by Algardi. Sacristy frescoes by Domenico Passignano and Giuseppe Puglia...
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    (16c.) The River Tiber from the Quattro Fontane by Muzio Mattei and Domenico Fontana (late 16c.). The she-wolf can be seen peeking from behind Father Tiber...
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    It was moved to its current site in 1586 by the engineer-architect Domenico Fontana under the direction of Pope Sixtus V; the engineering feat of re-erecting...
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    since ancient times; in 1586 it was moved from its original place by Domenico Fontana on the orders of Pope Sixtus V when St. Peter's Square was added. The...
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    Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594), composer, conferred by Pope Gregory XIII Domenico Fontana (1543 – 28 June 1607) Giorgio Basta (1544-1607), conferred by Rudolf...
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    accomplished using rope but without advanced technology: In 1586, Domenico Fontana erected the 327 ton obelisk on Rome's Saint Peter's Square with a concerted...
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    Reconstruction was carried out between 1599 and 1601 under the architect Domenico Fontana. Despite successive rebuildings over the centuries, the castle conserves...
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    decorated with grotesques in the Vatican Library, Vatican City, by Domenico Fontana, 1587–1588 Mother Nature is surrounded by grottesche in this fresco...
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  • Sussex Weald of England. Lighthouse of Genoa completed in present form. Domenico Fontana (died 1607), Swiss-born architect. approximate date – William Clowes...
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