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ID: 500026624
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026624
 
Record Type: Person
Fontana, Carlo (Italian architect and engineer, 1634-1714)

Note: Born in Rancate, near Como. Fontana arrived in Rome in the 1650s. In 1666, he became the "misuratore della R. Fabbrica di S. Pietro," and in 1697, he became the architect of Saint Peter's, Rome. Italian architect.

Names:
Fontana, Carlo (preferred,V,index,LC,Italian-P,NA)
Carlo Fontana (V,display)
Cavalier Carlo Fontana (V)
Signor Cavaliere Carlo Fontana (LU,V)
Cavalier Fontana (LU,U)

Nationalities:
Italian (preferred)
Swiss

Roles:
artist (preferred)
engineer
sculptor
painter
architect
designer
draftsman

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Lombardy (Italy) (region (administrative division))
Died:  Rome (Roma province, Lazio, Italy) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Rome (Roma province, Lazio, Italy) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
assistant of ....  Bernini, Gian Lorenzo  1650s-1660s
......................  (Italian sculptor, architect, 1598-1680) [500032022]
assistant of ....  Cortona, Pietro da  
......................  (Italian painter, architect, 1596-1669) [500115154]
assisted by ....  Fontana, Girolamo  
....................  (Italian architect, 1668-1701) [500002340]
collaborated with ....  Rainaldi, Carlo  from ca. 1661, on the twin churches in the Piazza del Popolo, Rome
................................  (Italian architect, 1611-1691) [500008257]
grandparent of ....  Fontana, Mauro  
..........................  (Italian architect, 1701-1767) [500116600]
influenced ....  Rusconi Sassi, Ludovico  
....................  (Italian architect, 1678-1736) [500024340]
nephew/niece of ....  Fontana, Domenico  
............................  (Italian architect, 1543-1607) [500022415]
parent of ....  Fontana, Francesco  
................  (Italian architect, 1668-1708) [500028572]
patron was ....  Christina, Queen of Sweden  1669-1671, Christina commissioned Fontana to construct the Teatro Tor di Nona
..................  (Swedish queen, 1626-1689) [500095065]
student of ....  Cortona, Pietro da  during 1650s
..................  (Italian painter, architect, 1596-1669) [500115154]
teacher of ....  Fischer von Erlach, Johann  
..................  (Austrian architect and sculptor, 1656-1723) [500011889]
teacher of ....  Fontana, Baldassare  
..................  (Italian stuccoist and architect, 1661-1733, active in Poland and Moravia) [500096176]
teacher of ....  Fontana, Francesco  
..................  (Italian architect, 1668-1708) [500028572]
teacher of ....  Fontana, Girolamo  
..................  (Italian architect, 1668-1701) [500002340]
teacher of ....  Gibbs, James  
..................  (Scottish architect, 1682-1754) [500118604]
teacher of ....  Hildebrandt, Johann Lukas von  
..................  (Austrian architect and military engineer, 1668-1745) [500025542]
teacher of ....  Juvarra, Filippo  
..................  (Italian architect, scenographer, 1678-1736, active in Italy and Spain) [500022389]
teacher of ....  Martinelli, Domenico  
..................  (Italian architect, 1650-1718) [500021032]
teacher of ....  Odam, Girolamo  
..................  (Italian painter, sculptor, and engraver, born 1681) [500185016]
teacher of ....  Specchi, Alessandro  
..................  (Italian architect and printmaker, 1668-1729) [500031316]
teacher of ....  Tessin, Nicodemus, the younger  
..................  (Swedish architect, draftsman, and collector, 1654-1728) [500004369]
uncle/aunt of ....  Fontana, Carlo Stefano  
........................  (Italian architect, ca. 1675-1740) [500023928]
uncle/aunt of ....  Fontana, Girolamo  
........................  (Italian architect, 1668-1701) [500002340]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Fontana, Carlo (I)

Biographies:
(Italian architect and engineer, 1634-1714) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Italian architect, 1634-1714) ..... [AVERY]
(Italian architect, 1634-1714) ..... [BHA]
(Italian and Swiss architect and engineer; born Rancate (Ticino, Switzerland), 1634; died Rome (Italy), 1714) ..... [CCA]
(Architect, engineer, 1634-1714) ..... [CENSUS]
(1634-5.II.1714; Architect, Engineer, Roma) ..... [FDA]
(Italian sculptor and architect, 1634-1714) ..... [GRLPA]
(Italian painter, 1634-1714) ..... [PROV]
(Italian artist, 1634-1714) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Italian architect, 1634-1714) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Italian architect, 1634-1714) ..... [AVERY]
(artist, 1634-1714) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Italian artist, 1634-1714) ..... [PROV]
(Italian architect, 1634-1714) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Carlo Fontana ........ [CCA, FDA, GRISC, PROV]
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
............................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000) Subject, 1988
Cavalier Carlo Fontana ........ [VP]
.............................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
Cavalier Fontana ........ [PROV]
..................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Fontana, Carlo ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, CENSUS Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, FDA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, NGA-US, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
..............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 89660398
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
..............................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
..............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..............................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000) Subject, 1988
..............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 117312
..............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Signor Cavaliere Carlo Fontana ........ [PROV]
............................................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
............................................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CCA, CENSUS, CL-Courtauld, FDA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, PROV, RKD, VP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Carlo Fontana mentioned in the Gaetani d'Aragona inventory of 1699 may NOT be the architect Carlo Fontana
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n89660398
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 21 Aug 2002
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n89660398
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
....................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
....................  Portoghesi, Dizionario di architettura e urbanistica (1968-1969)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000) Subject, 1988
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 117312
....................  same may be the case for the Colonna references to "Fontana" and "Cavaliere Fontana"
....................  Sgarbi, Roma: Dal rinascimento ai giorni nostri (1991)
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986) v.12, p.170 ff.
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q704356
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CCA, CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
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