Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri (13 April 1655 Rome - 11 February 1721 Rome) was an Italian architect. He worked in a

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and early

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style.Nina A. Mallory, ''Carlo Francesco Bizzacheri (1655-1721)'', in: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 33, 1974, pp. 27-47.

Biography

Bizzaccheri trained under the architect

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and possibly also under

Carlo Rainaldi Carlo Rainaldi (4 May 1611 – 8 February 1691) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Rome, Rainaldi was one of the leading architects of 17th-century Rome, known for a certain grandeur in his designs. He worked at f ...

. In 1684 he became a member of the Virtuosi al Pantheon, 1712 its "Reggente". He was also a member of the

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca () is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first ''principe'' or director; ...

from 1697. San Pietro in Vincoli - Tomba del Card

As house architect of prince Giovanni Battista Pamphili Aldobrandini, he built the entrance gate and garden wall of the

Villa Aldobrandini The Villa Aldobrandini is a villa in Frascati, Italy. It is still owned and lived in by the Aldobrandini family, and known as Belvedere for its location overlooking the valley toward the city of Rome. It is the only grand Papal garden not owned ...

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, accomplished in 1693. He also designed the tomb monument erected by the prince from 1705–07 to his ancestor ''Cardinal

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'' in

San Pietro in Vincoli San Pietro in Vincoli (; Saint Peter in Chains) is a Roman Catholic titular church and minor basilica in Rome, Italy. The church is on the Oppian Hill near Cavour metro station, a short distance from the Colosseum. The name alludes to the Bibl ...

. The sculpture of a winged skeleton and a pair of

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on this monument are by

Pierre Le Gros the Younger Pierre Le Gros (12 April 1666 Paris – 3 May 1719 Rome) was a French sculptor, active almost exclusively in Baroque Rome where he was the pre-eminent sculptor for nearly two decades.Gerhard Bissell, ''Pierre le Gros, 1666–1719'', Reading ...

. From 1695 he succeeded

Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi (1616–1695) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. Life He was a contemporary of Carlo Rainaldi. In 1657, he completed the sacristy of Tivoli Cathedral. That same year, he designed the ...

as architect of the

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in Rome and finished the work on its chapel by 1700 where the dome is decorated to his design. 1700-02 he added the chapel's vestibule. From 1709-12 Bizzaccheri was the architect of the Palazzo di

San Luigi dei Francesi The Church of St. Louis of the French (, , ) is a Catholic Church, Catholic church near Piazza Navona in Rome. The church is dedicated to the patron saints of France: Virgin Mary, Dionysius the Areopagite and King Louis IX of France. The churc ...

in Rome and from 1712-19 he worked for the Tribunale delle Strade. He was also until 1715 the architect for the

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, a town where also extended the palace of Cardinal Nuzzi. Bizzaccheri was never assigned any major tasks but nevertheless played an important role in the transformation of the borrominesque vocabulary into the language of Roman rococo. This is exemplified by the facade of Sant’Isidoro a Capo le Case, his most distinguished work, which he constructed from 1704-05 using the extant staircase and

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. He was very much at the forefront of stylistic change and anticipated later tastes as is demonstrated by his completion of the Cappella di San Nicola di Bari, financed by Paolo Girolamo della Torre, in

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. The chapel was begun by Mattia de Rossi in 1690 and finished by Bizzaccheri from 1694–96 in tones that would determine the colour scheme of the rest of the church in the mid-18th century. In 1715 he designed the

Fountain of the Tritons The Fountain of the Tritons (Italian: ''Fontana dei Tritoni'') is a fountain in Rome (Italy), Piazza Bocca della Verità, in front of the basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. This fountain should be distinguished from the similarly named nearby ...

in the

Piazza Bocca della Verità Piazza Bocca della Verità (Italian: ''Square of the Mouth of Truth'') is a square between Via Luigi Petroselli and Via della Greca in Rome (Italy), in the rione Ripa. The square lies in the ancient area of the Forum Boarium, the cattle market ...

."Piazza Bocca della Verita Fountain", CurateND
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Other works

*Chapel of Sant'Anna,

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, Roma. (1679) *Convent of Santa Maria Maddalena, Rome (c. 1680) *Chapel of Sant'Antonio di Padova, San Isidoro, Rome (1681) *Convent of

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(1690) *Memorial to the Principessa Flavia Bonelli, Chapel of the Madonna del Divino Aiuto (1691) * Gemstone ciborium, altar of the Chapel of the Crucifix in

San Marcello al Corso San Marcello al Corso, is an ancient titular and conventual church in Rome, Italy. It has been served by friars of the Servite Order since c. 1375 and is the headquarters of their General Curia. The cardinal-protector of the church is norma ...

(1691) *

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of San Marcello (minor work, late 17th century) *Convent of San Basilio (minor work, late 17th century) * Palazzo Aragona Gonzaga (1701) addition of an upper floor.

Notes

External links

Scholar Source (Carlo Francesco Bizzacheri)
Retrieved 29 April 2010.

Gallery

File:Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Lazio, Italy. LOC 7419845578 cropped.jpg, Gate and garden wall, Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, 1693 File:10558 - Rome - Piazza della Bocca della Verita (3507031320).jpg, Fountain on the Piazza della

Bocca della Verità The Mouth of Truth ( ) is an ancient Roman marble mask in Rome, Italy, which stands against the left wall of the portico of the Santa Maria in Cosmedin church, at the Piazza della Bocca della Verità, the site of the ancient Forum Boarium (the ...

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