Sebastiano Cipriani (1662–1738) was an Italian architect active in the late-

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period mainly in

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Biography

He was born in Siena, but moved to Rome in 1683 to work in the studio of

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. He worked with Rainaldi in 1686-1690 in the completion of the Palazzo Mancini in Via del Corso Rome. His proposal for the main altar to the titular saint in

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was not adopted, instead the design of

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was selected. Cipriani was active in the design of funeral catafalques for prominent figures. He helped complete, along with Giovanni Battista Contini, the Oratory of San Filippo in

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. He died in Rome. illa Savorelli a Sutri: Storia Architettura Paesaggio by Mario Bevilacqua, Aloisio Antinori; chapter titled ''L'architettura di Sebastiano Cipriani, i progetti e le opera realizzate''. Gangemi Editore (2016): Pages 94-97, 99.

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