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Carlo Maderno

1556 - 1629

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Carlo Maderno or Maderna (1556 – 31 January 1629) was an Italian architect, born in today's Ticino, Switzerland, who is remembered as one of the fathers of Baroque architecture. His façades of Santa Susanna, St. Peter's Basilica, and Sant'Andrea della Valle were of key importance in the evolution of the Italian Baroque. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Maderno has received more than 174,689 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Carlo Maderno is the 33rd most popular architect (up from 50th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 51st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Architect.

Carlo Maderno was a Renaissance architect who is most famous for designing the façade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Carlo Maderno ranks 33 out of 518. Before him are Santiago Calatrava, Henry van de Velde, André Le Nôtre, Adolf Loos, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Peter Behrens. After him are Ictinus, Tadao Ando, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rem Koolhaas, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and Hippodamus of Miletus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1556, Carlo Maderno ranks 1. After him are Anne Hathaway, Sophia Brahe, Joseph Calasanz, Adriaen de Vries, Otto van Veen, Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Jerzy Radziwiłł, Tōdō Takatora, Paul Bril, and Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn. Among people deceased in 1629, Carlo Maderno ranks 2. Before him is Abbas the Great. After him are Gabriel Bethlen, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Otto van Veen, Pietro Bernini, Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Giorgi Saakadze, Mehmed III Giray, and Sigismondo d'India.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carlo Maderno ranks 33 out of 1,015. Before him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Jacob Burckhardt (1818), Erich von Däniken (1935), Jacques Necker (1732), Joan Gamper (1877), and Heinrich Rohrer (1933). After him are Hermann Rorschach (1884), K. Alex Müller (1927), Karl Barth (1886), Adelaide of Italy (931), Ursula Andress (1936), and Franz Mesmer (1734).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Carlo Maderno ranks 3. Before him are Le Corbusier (1887), and Francesco Borromini (1599). After him are Peter Zumthor (1943), Domenico Fontana (1543), Mario Botta (1943), Hannes Meyer (1889), Max Bill (1908), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Carlo Fontana (1638), and Adolphe Appia (1862).

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