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Guarino Guarini
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Italian mathematician and architect (1624-1683)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1624-01-17 ) 17 January 1624, Modena , Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Died
- 6 March 1683 (1683-03-06) (aged 59), Milan , Duchy of Milan
- Known for
- Chapel of the Holy Shroud Royal Church of Saint Lawrence Castle of Racconigi (with Filippo Juvarra , Pelagio Palagi and Giovanni Battista Borra ) Palazzo Carignano
- Parent s
- Raimondo Guarini and Eugenia Guarini (née Marescotti)
- Fields
- Architecture , mathematics , astronomy and physics
- Religion
- Christianity
- Church
- Catholic Church
- Ordained
- January 17, 1648
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Modena
- Place of death
- Milan
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- Tolentini
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Notable work
- Church of San Lorenzo, Turin
- Field of work
- architecture
- Image
- Guarini - Dissegni d'architettura civile et ecclesiastica 0007 (cropped).jpg
- Religious order
- Theatines
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- Commons category
- Guarino Guarini
- date of birth
- 1624-01-17
- date of death
- 1683-03-06
- student
- George of Trebizond
- Commons Creator page
- Guarino Guarini
- has works in the collection
- Nationalmuseum
- start of work period
- 1639-01-01
- end of work period
- 1683-01-01
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Camillo Guarino Guarini
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Guarino Guarini, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Camillo Guarino Guarini (17 January 1624 – 6 March 1683) was an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France and Portugal. He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. His work represents the ultimate achievement of Italian Baroque structural engineering, creating in stone what could be attempted today in reinforced concrete. Together with Francesco Borromini, Guarini is the most renowned exponent of the anti-classical, anti-Vitruvian trend that dominated Italian architecture after Michelangelo but increasingly lost ground from the late 17th century. His subtly designed buildings, crowned with daring and complex domes, were ignored in Italy outside Piedmont, but illustrations published in 1686 and again in Guarini’s treatise Architettura civile (1737) proved a fruitful source of inspiration in the development of south German and Austrian late Baroque and Rococo architecture.
Early life and education
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