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BAROCCHIO (or BAROZZI), GIACOMO

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 417 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BAROCCHIO (or BAROZZI), GIACOMO , called DA VIGNOLA (1507-1573), Italian architect, was born at Vignola in the Modenese territory on the Ist of October 1507. His early
work
  was conducted at Bologna, Piacenza, Assisi and Perugia, until he was summoned to Rome as papal architect under
Pope
 
Julius
  III. In 1564 he succeeded Michelangelo as the architect of St Peter's, and executed various portions of that fabric, besides a variety of works in Rome. The designs for the Escorial were also supplied by him. He is the author of an excellent
work
  on the Five Orders of Architecture (Rome, 1563), and another work on
Practical
  Perspective (Rome, i583). To his extensive acquirements and exquisite
taste
  were superadded an amenity of manners and a noble generosity that won the affection and admiration of all who knew him. He died in Rome on the 7th of July 1573. He was an eminent upholder of the classic style at a period when the style known as
baroque
  was corrupting the architecture of Italy. The
term
 
baroque
  owes its origin to the Spanish word barrueco or berrueco, an imperfectly round 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 form of architecture encouraged by the
Jesuits
  whose
church
  in Rome was built by
Barocchio
 .


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