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  1. Guarino Guarini (born January 17, 1624, Modena, Duchy of Modena [Italy]—died March 6, 1683, Milan) was an Italian architect, priest, mathematician, and theologian whose designs and books on architecture made him a major source for later Baroque architects in central Europe and northern Italy. Guarini was in Rome during 1639–47, when ...

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  2. Camillo Guarino Guarini (17 January 1624 – 6 March 1683) was an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France and Portugal. He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. [1] [2] His work represents the ultimate achievement of Italian Baroque structural engineering, creating in stone what could ...

    • Raimondo Guarini and Eugenia Guarini (née Marescotti)
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  4. Apr 8, 2024 · Guarino Guarini. Born in 1624, Guarini left his hometown of Modena to study theology, philosophy, and mathematics in Rome. Eight years later, he was ordained as a Theatine, one of the orders created during the Counter-Reformation to rehabilitate the church from within. Guarini began designing buildings while rising through the clerical ranks.

  5. The idea of guarini being an architect who took borromini’s extravagance to excess in the Italian edition is transformed in the French into the idea that guarini, of all the architects who took up borromini’s bizarre style, was the one who took it to the greatest excess. Two important shifts take place in this act of translation: borromini ...

  6. May 18, 2018 · Guarino Guarini (1624-1683) was an Italian architect, priest, and philosopher, whose mathematical studies enabled him to create the most fantastic of all baroque churches. Guarino Guarini was born in Modena on Jan. 17, 1624. He joined the austere new Theatine order in 1639 and went to Rome for his novitiate. This was during the period when the ...

  7. The chapel was designed by architect-priest and mathematician Guarino Guarini and built at the end of the 17th century (1668–1694), during the reign of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, and is considered one of the masterpieces of Baroque architecture. Heavily damaged in a fire in 1997, it underwent a complex 21 year restoration project ...

  8. Jan 15, 2015 · The second part is a review of the designs and geometric strategies employed by Guarino Guarini, the starting point for the development of Central European Baroque sacred architecture. The third part is an analysis of the main geometric and compositional assumptions that characterized the design of the most notable churches of Bohemian Baroque ...

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