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Carlo Fontana

1638 - 1714

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Carlo Fontana (1634/1638–1714) was an Italian architect originating from today's Canton Ticino. He was partly responsible for the classicizing direction taken by Late Baroque Roman architecture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Fontana is the 157th most popular architect (up from 191st in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 206th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Carlo Fontana ranks 157 out of 518Before him are Gottfried Böhm, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Mikhail Eisenstein, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Lina Bo Bardi, and Alonzo Cano. After him are Paul Troost, Charlotte Perriand, Eero Saarinen, Ebenezer Howard, Carl Ludvig Engel, and Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1638, Carlo Fontana ranks 15Before him are Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Elisabetta Sirani, Meindert Hobbema, James Gregory, Frederik Ruysch, and Christoph Cellarius. After him are Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Gerrit Berckheyde, Pierre Magnol, Richard Simon, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, and Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve. Among people deceased in 1714, Carlo Fontana ranks 8Before him are Sophia of Hanover, Charles, Duke of Berry, Maria Luisa of Savoy, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Bernardino Ramazzini, and Andreas Schlüter. After him are Constantin Brâncoveanu, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Marie Anne Mancini, Prince Frederick William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, and Vasily Golitsyn.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carlo Fontana ranks 172 out of 1,015Before him are Karin Keller-Sutter (1963), Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Emer de Vattel (1714), Peter Sauber (1943), and Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919). After him are Grock (1880), Notker the Stammerer (840), Charles Dutoit (1936), Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938), Alain Tanner (1929), and Walter H. Schottky (1886).

Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Carlo Fontana ranks 9Before him are Carlo Maderno (1556), Domenico Fontana (1543), Peter Zumthor (1943), Mario Botta (1943), Hannes Meyer (1889), and Max Bill (1908). After him are Pietro Lombardo (1435), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), Adolphe Appia (1862), Domenico Trezzini (1670), and Justus Dahinden (1925).