ARCHITECTS MENTIONED 
VIGNOLA (GIACOMO BAROZZI DA) 
1507-1573 
Vignola, one of the greatest architects of the sixteenth century, born 
at Vignola, in the province of Modena, followed Michelangelo as the 
architect of St. Peter’s. The Villa Lante at Bagnaia, near Viterbo, 
is attributed to him. In Rome he built the celebrated Villa di Papa 
Giulio, though the plan was Vasari’s; also the garden-architecture of 
the Orti Farnesiani on the Palatine. His masterpiece is the palace 
at Caprarola, near Viterbo. He also built the great Palazzo Farnese 
at Piacenza, various buildings at Bologna, and the loggia of the Villa 
Mondragone at Frascati. His church of the Gesu in Rome greatly 
influenced other architects. His text-book on the Orders of Archi- 
tecture is one of the best-known works on the subject. 
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