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| | C.Maderno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) |
 | | Carlo Maderno, Italian architect, was born in Capolago, Canton Ticino in 1556 and died in Rome in 1629. |
 | | Under the pontificate of Paul V, Maderno, the key-person of the moment, because of his ability to innovate architecture, won the contest for the works of |
 | | He changed the Michelangelo's central plan to longitudinal one, returning to the traditional scheme of the basilicas, and also he had to create a facade of the temple (1607-1612). |
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