Domenico Rossi (28 December 1657 – 8 March 1737) was a Swiss-Italian architect.
[Fulvio Lenzo, ''L'architetto Domenico Rossi di Morcote. Autore della chiesa e della faccita di Santa Maria Assunta dei Gesuiti,'' in Giorgio Mollisi ed., ''Svizzeri a Venezia nella storia nell'arte nella cultura nell'economia dalla metà del Quattrocento ad oggi,'' Arte&Storia, a. 8, n. 40, Editrice Ticino Management S.A., Lugano, 2008, 302-321]
Biography
He was born in
Morcote,
Ticino
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, and was a pupil of
Baldassarre Longhena. Later he became the family architect of the noble Venetian houses of Dolfin, Savorgnan and Manin. In 1701 he directed the restoration of Palazzo Dolfin and in 1709 he was commissioned the renovation of the façade of
San Stae church.
In 1713 he designed the Baroque
church of the Gesuiti, also in Venice, while in 1714-1715 he worked at the church of
Ljubljana
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's
Križanke, in the shape of a Greek cross. In 1724 he built the
Ca' Corner della Regina. One of his last works was the renovation of the
Cathedral of Udine.
Rossi died in 1737 in
Venice
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.
References
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1657 births
1737 deaths
Architects from Ticino
17th-century Italian architects
18th-century Italian architects
Architects from Venice