Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi

Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi (1616–1695) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.

Life

He was a contemporary of Carlo Rainaldi. In 1657, he completed the sacristy of Tivoli Cathedral.[1] At about the time he became the architect of the Monte di Pietà in Rome until his death and built its oval chapel from the 1650s onwards.

For Pope Clement X he carried out an extensive and hurried refurbishment (1670–76) of the family's Palazzo Altieri near the Church of Il Gesù .

He erected the church of Santa Maria in Campo Marzio in 1682-1685 and was involved in the design of the Cappella Lancellotti in St John Lateran.

His Palazzo D'Aste-Bonaparte on Piazza Venezia influenced the later designs of Alessandro Specchi's Palazzo de Carolis and Tommaso de Marchis' Palazzo Millini-Cagiati.

Sources
  1. Le meraviglie di Roma: Dal Rinascimento ai giorni nostri Vittorio Sgarbi - 2011 "Giovanni Antonio De Rossi Sue opere fuori Roma: Santa Maria della Cima a Genzano (iniziata dal Peparelli nel 1636) e la sacrestia del duomo di Tivoli (1657)."
  • Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750. 1980. Penguin Books. pp. 289–290.


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