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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, who was in part responsible for the classicizing direction taken by Late Baroque Roman architecture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Fontana has received more than 71,187 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Carlo Fontana is the 211th most popular architect (down from 156th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 151st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Carlo Fontana ranks 211 out of 424Before him are Callimachus, Mart Stam, Carlo Rainaldi, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Nicholas Negroponte, and Lilly Reich. After him are Eduardo Souto de Moura, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Eero Aarnio, Ebenezer Howard, Baysunghur, and Glenn Murcutt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1638, Carlo Fontana ranks 15Before him are Meindert Hobbema, James Gregory, Elisabetta Sirani, Christoph Cellarius, Frederik Ruysch, and Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. After him are Zeb-un-Nissa, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, Richard Simon, Gerrit Berckheyde, Pierre Magnol, and Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve. Among people deceased in 1714, Carlo Fontana ranks 11Before him are Bernardino Ramazzini, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Andreas Schlüter, Marie Anne Mancini, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Constantin Brâncoveanu. After him are Vasily Golitsyn, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, and Matthew Henry.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carlo Fontana ranks 213 out of 876Before him are Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Ferdinand Kübler (1919), André Abegglen (1909), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Pascal Couchepin (1942), and Jean Ziegler (1934). After him are Jost Amman (1539), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Jean Vanier (1928), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), and Ubol Ratana (1951).

Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Carlo Fontana ranks 12Before him are Mario Botta (1943), Hannes Meyer (1889), Max Bill (1908), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Bernard Tschumi (1944), and Adolphe Appia (1862). After him are Pierre Jeanneret (1896), Domenico Trezzini (1670), James of Saint George (1230), and Justus Dahinden (1925).