Filippo Barigioni (1690–1753) was an

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sculptor and architect working in the Late Baroque tradition. Bariogioni was born in

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. His career was spent largely on papal commissions, including aqueducts and fountains, in and around Rome. As a professor of architecture at the

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, his most important pupil was

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. He died in Rome in 1753.

Main works

*Fontana della Rotonda (1711). The fountain setting for the Egyptian obelisk that faces the Pantheon was commissioned by the Albani pope

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; Barigioni was commissioned to re-erect an Egyptian obelisk (the ''Obelisco Macuteo'') in the place of the central vase of

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's fountain (1575) in the centre of Piazza della Rotonda. Luigi Amici carved the four dolphins at the base of the pedestal (''illustration''). The ensemble was adapted in 1880. *Palazzo Testa-Piccolomini (1718) *Aqueduct and municipal fountain at

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(1727). The spectacular buttressed piers of the aqueduct's high arches are still a monumental sight in Nepi. Barigioni also designed the public fountain, set into a niche in the façade of the Palazzo Communale, where the aqueduct's water issues from the heraldic tower of

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. *Fountain in Corneto (modern

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) (1727), celebrating the Conti pope

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. *Façade for church of '' San Gregorio della Divina Pietà'' (1727–29). Barigioni designed the façade for the church in Piazza Monte Savello, near the

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, first mentioned in twelfth-century. The church stood just outside the

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; the inscriptions in Hebrew and Latin on the scroll above the door were intended "''che rimproverano la perfidia ed ostinazione degli Ebrei"'' according to

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's ''Itinerario'' 1761. (''illustration''). *Church of

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. (1736). Right

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altar with the bronze and marble image of ''S. Francesco di Paola'' (Titi-Bottari 1763). The altarpiece is by

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, the

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angels by

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. *

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, Palazzo Comunale, (completed 1741). The town hall, begun in 1572 by

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to a design by

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, was completed by Barigioni. *Church of

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(1744). Interior redecorations, Cardinal Angelo Querini. *

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in the courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Campidoglio (1734), with the arms of Clement XII, celebrating the installation of the

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.TCI 1965:103f. *Monument to Queen Maria Clementina Sobieska (1739–42),

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. He designed the monument, which was executed by the sculptor

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; the realistic and theatrical white and colored marble funeral monument commemorated the consort of the Stuart pretender James Francis Stuart. *Chapel of S. Fabiano, in the Church of San Sebastian on the

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, erected to glorify the Albani family to designs of

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, was executed by

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and Barigioni (Titi-Bottari 1763; TCI 1965395) *Church of Madonna del Pascolo and Ss. Sergius and Bacchus. High altar designed by Barigioni (Titi-Bottari 1763).

Notes

References

Filippo Titi, ''Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte in Roma'', rivista da Giovanni Bottari, 1763
* ttp://roma.katolsk.no/marco.htm Chris Nyborg, "Churches of Rome: S. Marco"br>Chris Nyborg, "Churches of Rome: S. Maria della Pietà" (S. Gregorio a Ponte Quattro Capi)
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