About Benedetto Giovannelli
Lived 1602 – 1676 (aged 73–74). Benedetto Giovannelli was an Italian architect.
Benedetto Giovannelli (also Benedetto Giovannelli Orlandi) (1602–1676 CE) was an architect from Siena.
In 1660 he was commissioned by Pope Alexander VII (a Chigi) to build a new marble façade for the church of San Raimondo, which is in three classicist-style superimposed orders.
He was one of a group of architects (the others being Damiano Schifandini, Flaminio del Turco, Giovanni Fontana) who produced buildings marked by a harmonious, measured style.
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Italian architect
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Benedetto Giovannelli was born in 1602.
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Benedetto Giovannelli died in 1676.
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Benedetto Giovannelli was an architect.
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Benedetto Giovannelli was Italian.
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