Giovanni Simonetti (1652 – 4 November 1716) was a Swiss

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

, builder, and

plasterer A plasterer is a tradesman who works with plaster, such as forming a layer of plaster on an interior wall or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. The process of creating plasterwork, called plastering, has been used in buildin ...

who was involved in the design of the Jerusalem Church in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. He constructed the Neue Kirche from 1701 to 1708. He also plastered the

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ceiling at the

Alte Handelsbörse The Alte Handelsbörse or Alte Börse (Old Exchange (organized market)#History, exchange) in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, is the city's oldest assembly building of merchants, and also the oldest Baroque architecture, Baroque building. Built as the B ...

in Leipzig.

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Swiss architects 1652 births 1716 deaths People from Berlin {{Switzerland-architect-stub