ARCHITECTS AND LANDSCAPE- 
LIGORIO (PIRRO) 
1493-1580 
Ligorio, the Neapolitan architect, was also distinguished as antiquary, 
sculptor and engineer; he worked much in sgraffiti. He built the 
beautiful Villa Pia in the Vatican gardens, and the Villa d’Este at 
Tivoli, and made additions to the Vatican. The Library in Turin 
possesses his numerous manuscripts, some of which have been pub- 
lished. His best-known works are “An Attempt to Restore Ancient 
Rome” and “The Restoration of Hadrian’s Villa,” the plates for which 
were engraved on copper by Francesco Contini in 1751. 
LIPPI (ANNIBALE) 
B. , d. 1581 
Lippi is generally said to have been the son of Nanni di Baccio Bigio, 
the architect and sculptor, though some biographers declare them to 
have been the same person. Assuming Lippi to have had a separate 
identity, only two of his works are known : the church of S. Maria di 
Loreto, near Spoleto, and the Villa Medici in Rome. His fame rests 
on the latter, which became the model of the Roman maison de 
plaisance . 
LONGHENA (BALDASSARE) 
1604-1682 
Longhena, the most distinguished architect of the late Renaissance in 
Venetia, gave all his time and work to his native city. Among the 
buildings he erected there are : S. Maria della Salute, S. Maria ai Scalzi, 
the Ospedaletto, the cloister and staircase in San Giorgio Maggiore, 
the Palazzo Pesaro, and the Palazzo Rezzonico (now Zelinsky). 
LUNGHI OR LONGHI (MARTINO) THE ELDER 
XVI Century 
Lunghi, born at Viggiu in the Milanese, in the second half of 
the sixteenth century, built the Villa Mondragone at Frascati, in 
1567, for Cardinal Marco d’Altemps. The villa was enlarged by 
Gregory VII, and later by Paul V and his nephew, Cardinal Scipione 
Borghese. 
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