1638 - 1714
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, Carlo Fontana ranks 211 out of 424. Before 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.
500 BC - 460 BC
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 205
1899 - 1986
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 206
1611 - 1691
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 207
1662 - 1736
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 208
1943 - Present
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 209
1885 - 1947
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 210
1638 - 1714
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 211
1952 - Present
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 212
1514 - 1575
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 213
1932 - Present
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 214
1850 - 1928
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 215
1397 - 1433
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 216
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 217
Among people born in 1638, Carlo Fontana ranks 15. Before 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 11. Before 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.
1638 - 1709
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 9
1638 - 1675
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 10
1638 - 1665
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 11
1638 - 1707
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 12
1638 - 1731
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 13
1638 - 1701
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 14
1638 - 1714
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 15
1638 - 1702
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 16
1638 - 1704
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 17
1638 - 1712
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 18
1638 - 1698
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 19
1638 - 1715
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 20
1638 - 1704
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 21
1633 - 1714
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 5
1650 - 1714
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 6
1660 - 1714
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 7
1649 - 1714
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 8
1633 - 1714
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 9
1654 - 1714
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 10
1638 - 1714
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 11
1643 - 1714
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 12
1646 - 1714
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 13
1662 - 1714
HPI: 45.11
Rank: 14
Among people born in Switzerland, Carlo Fontana ranks 213 out of 876. Before 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).
1899 - 1978
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 207
1919 - 2016
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 208
1909 - 1944
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 209
1803 - 1855
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 210
1942 - Present
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 211
1934 - Present
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 212
1638 - 1714
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 213
1539 - 1591
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 214
1698 - 1783
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 215
1488 - 1563
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 216
1928 - 2019
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 217
1718 - 1751
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 218
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 219
Among architects born in Switzerland, Carlo Fontana ranks 12. Before 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).
1943 - Present
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 6
1889 - 1954
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 7
1908 - 1994
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 8
1435 - 1515
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 10
1862 - 1928
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 11
1638 - 1714
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 12
1896 - 1967
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 13
1670 - 1734
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 14
1230 - 1309
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 15
1925 - 2020
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 16