Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Giacomo della Porta: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born c.1537 • Rome • Italy
Died 1602 • Rome • Italy
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • Mannerism

Photos

Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Italy
Il Gesù, Rome, Italy
Figure 63: Facade of the church of II Gesu, Rome, designed by Giacomo della Porta and Giacomo da Vignola, c. 1568-84.
See All Images →
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Facade of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, by Carlo Maderno, 1607.
Carlo Maderno
Italian architect
Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola, Italy, by Giacomo da Vignola, 1559–73
Giacomo da Vignola
Italian architect
default image
Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger
Italian architect
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
default image
Bernardo Rossellino
Italian sculptor
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Bartolommeo Ammannati
Italian sculptor and architect
Guarini, Guarino: dome of San Lorenzo
Guarino Guarini
Italian architect, priest, mathematician, and theologian
Juvarra, Filippo: Stupinigi's royal hunting lodge
Filippo Juvarra
Italian architect
Staircase of the Royal Palace, Caserta, Italy, by Luigi Vanvitelli, 1752
Luigi Vanvitelli
Italian architect
Church of Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome, by Carlo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi
Italian architect
default image
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Smolny Cathedral
Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli
architect
Würzburg Residenz, designed by Balthasar Neumann, 18th century, Würzburg, Germany.
Balthasar Neumann
German architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Garden facade of Belvedere Palace, Vienna, by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Austrian architect
Royal Palace
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
Swedish architect

Related Quizzes

Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.
Architecture: The Built World
Close-up of a palette held by a man. Mixing paint, painting, color mixing.
Artists, Painters, & Architects