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Vignola

[ vee-nyaw-lah ]

noun

  1. Gia·co·mo da [jah, -kaw-maw dah], Giacomo Barocchio or Barozzi, 1507–73, Italian architect.


Vignola

/ viɲˈɲɔːla /

noun

  1. VignolaGiacomo Barozzi da15071573MItalianARCHITECTURE: architect Giacomo Barozzi da (ˈdʒaːkomo baˈrɔttsi da). 1507–73, Italian architect, whose cruciform design for Il Gesù, Rome, greatly influenced later Church architecture


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The whole is as painfully dry as the transfer of a student's compass from a page of Vignola.

The present edifice was the work of Vignola and Giacomo della Porta in 1582.

He is said to have had Vignola's designs for the architectural parts.

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