Baroque architects Baroque architects Andrea Pozzo ( Trento, 1642 – 1709) is an Italian artist best known for his grandiose frescoes using illusionist technique called quadratura. His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrea Pozzo"
Andreas Schlüter ( May 20 1660 in Danzig – May 1714 in St. Petersburg) was a baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andreas Schlüter"
Johann Balthasar Neumann ( January 27, 1687 - August 19, 1753) was a German Baroque architect who designed the Vierzehnheiligen and several churches in Würzburg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Balthasar Neumann"
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (Russian: Франческо Бартоломео Растрелли) ( 1700- 1771) was a Russian architect of Italian origin. He developed an easily recognizable style of late baroque, both sumptuous and majestic. His major works, including the Winter Palace in St Petersburg and the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, are famed for extravagant luxury and opulence of decoration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bartolomeo Rastrelli"
Carlo Rainaldi ( May 4 1611, Rome - February 8 1691, Rome) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carlo Rainaldi"
Prince Dmitry Vasilyevich Ukhtomsky ( 1719– 1774) was the chief architect of Moscow during the reign of Empress Elizabeth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dmitry Ukhtomsky"
Francesco Borromini ( Bissone near Lugano, Switzerland, September 25 1599 – August 3 1667 in Rome) was a prominent and influential Baroque architect, and active in Rome and contemporary with the prolific papal architect and often rival, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francesco Borromini"
François Mansart ( January 13, 1598 in Paris - September 23, 1666 in Paris) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopaedia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance". ...more on Wikipedia about "François Mansart"
Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin ( 1700– 1763) was a Russian architect whose designs marked a transition of Russian architecture from early Muscovite baroque to mature Rastrelliesque style. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin"
James Robert Rhind, architect, was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1854 and trained as an architect in his father's local practice. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Robert Rhind"
Jan Blažej Santini Aichel ( February 3, 1677 - December 7, 1723), also called Giovanni Santini, was a Czech architect of the baroque. He was born in Prague to a family of stonemasons, who had moved from Italy to Bohemia during the 17th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jan Santini Aichel"
:Fischer von Erlach links here. For other uses, see Fischer von Erlach (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach"
Kilián Ignác Dienzenhofer ( 1689– 1751) was an important Czech architect of the Baroque era. He was the fifth son of famous architect Kryštof Dientzenhofer. As architect he cooperated with his father and with Giovanni Santini. Among his buildings buildings are Church of St. John Nepomucene, Church of St. Nicholas, Vila Amerika and Goltz-Kinsky Palace in Prague. He also built numerous churches and secular buildings in other towns of Bohemia. Many of his later projects were realized by his pupil and son-in-law Anselmo Martino Lurago. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer"
Kryštof Dientzenhofer (also written as Christoph Dientzenhofer, July 7, 1655- June 10, 1722) - prominent architect of Bohemian Baroque. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kryštof Dientzenhofer" Don't hesitate to contact stuff on shortopedia
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