Francesco Borromini

Francesco Borromini

Francesco Borromini (, Italian: [franˈtʃesko borroˈmiːni]), byname of Francesco Castelli (Italian: [kaˈstɛlli]; 25 September 1599 – 2 August 1667), was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.A keen student of the architecture of Michelangelo and the ruins of Antiquity, Borromini developed an inventive and distinctive, if somewhat idiosyncratic, architecture employing manipulations of Classical architectural forms, geometrical rationales in his plans and symbolic meanings in his buildings. He seems to have had a sound understanding of structures, which perhaps Bernini and Cortona, who were principally trained in other areas of the visual arts, lacked. His soft lead drawings are particularly distinctive. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Borromini has received more than 394,161 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Francesco Borromini is the 18th most popular architect, the 16th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Architect.

Francesco Borromini is most famous for his work in architecture. He designed the Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, which is considered to be a masterpiece.