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	Fontana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fontana (194 words)

	Domenico Fontana -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Domenico Fontana (1543 – 1607) was a Italian architect of the late Renaissance.
		He was born at Merli on the (additional info and facts about Lake of Lugano) Lake of Lugano and died at (A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region) Naples.
		After his accession as Sixtus V, he appointed Fontana architect of (Disciple of Jesus and leader of the apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope) St.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/domenico_fontana.htm (427 words)

	DOMENICO FONTANA - LoveToKnow Article on DOMENICO FONTANA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He made rapid progress, and was taken into the service of Cardinal Montalto, for whom he erected a chapel in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore and the villa Negroni.
		But the undertaking which brought Fontana the highest repute was the removal of the great Egyptian obelisk, which had been brought to Rome in the reign of Caligula, from the place where it lay in the circus of the Vatican.
		This appears to have been just in time to save the Colosseum from being converted by Fontana into a huge cloth factory, according to a project of Sixtus V. Fontana was then called to Naples, and accepted the appointment of architect to the viceroy, the count of Miranda.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FONTANA_DOMENICO.htm (362 words)

	AllRefer.com - Domenico Fontana (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Domenico Fontana[dOme´nEkO fOntA´nA] Pronunciation Key, 1543–1607, Italian architect.
		When his patron was made pope (Sixtus V), Fontana played a leading part in the great rebuilding of Rome.
		On the death of Sixtus V, Fontana's Roman career collapsed; he withdrew to Naples, where he built the imposing royal palace (1600) and where he died before the execution of his magnificent designs for the improvement of the harbor.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FontanaD.html (274 words)

	Roman Monographies - Fountains · part III · Main Fountains (page 1)
		Domenico was the most outstanding member of a whole family of architects from Ticino region, now in Switzerland.
		Fontana's elder brother Giovanni, instead, is credited for having supervised the making of the Aqua Felix aqueduct and for having cooperated with Flaminio Ponzio for the making of the huge Acqua Paola fountain on the Janiculum hill.
		After having been taught by his own father Adriano, Girolamo came to Rome, where he met both Domenico Fontana and Giacomo della Porta; due to their influence, Rainaldi's architectural schemes mainly remained those of the late Renaissance, despite with the turn of the 17th century, in Rome the Baroque age had already begun.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Domenico Fontana
		After his accession as Sixtus V, Montalto appointed Fontana architect of St. Peter's, bestowing upon him among other distinction the title of Knight of the Golden Spur.
		Among profane buildings his strong restrained style, with its suggestion of the School of Vignola, is best exemplified in the Lateran Palace (begun 1586), in which the vigorous application of sound structural principles and a power of co-ordination are undeniable, but also the utter lack of imagination and barren monotony of style.
		It was characteristic of him to remain satisfied with a single solution of an architectural problem, as shown in the fact that he reapplied the motif of the Lateran Palace in the later part of the Vatican containing the present papal residence, and in the additions to the Quirinal Palace.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06126c.htm (614 words)

	About Bernini and the Art of Architecture \| Abbeville Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fontana's raising of the obelisks originated with the stone that marked the center spine of the Roman circus ruins located to the south of Saint Peter's basilica.
		Fontana's villa for the pope, begun some years before his election, established the type for the extensive country estate residence that would be amplified by the Borghese, Ludovisi, and Pamphili families.
		Shortly after the death of Sixtus V, Domenico Fontana was accused of embezzlement, and by 1594 had fled to Naples.
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	Bill Fontana - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fontana was trained in philosophy and music, but even as a young composer, he was less interested in creating traditional musical composition than in exploring musical form in everyday sound.
		Fontana acknowledges the influence of Zen Bhuddism and John Cage, who defined music as a state of mind, on his thinking of the time, as well as the influence of minimalist composers, such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Terry Riley.
		Fontana, however, exploits sound's capacity to elicit visual imagery through memory and knowledge, even as he creates a tension caused by the disjunction of what is heard and what is seen.
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=fontana_bill (945 words)

	Domenico Fontana -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Fontana went to Rome in 1563, where he was employed by Cardinal Montalto (later Pope Sixtus V) to design a chapel in the church of Sta.
		The Italian-born astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini was the first in a four-generation dynasty of French scientists who served as director of the Paris Observatory.
		His son Domenico Scarlatti was a virtuoso performer on the harpsichord and is known for his 555 sonatas that changed and expanded the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034781?tocId=9034781 (569 words)

	No. 370: Moving an Obelisk
		Fontana bid on it, but he had little hope.
		Fontana built timber towers on either side and strengthened the obelisk itself with metal bands and wooden beams.
		Fontana allowed only two sounds: a trumpet blast to begin a movement, and a bell to end it.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi370.htm (540 words)

	, antiquariaat Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fontana studied architecture in Rome under the most important architect of the 17th century, Bernini, the creator of the famous piazza of St. Peter to which Fontana himself contributed one of the fountains, the one which is towards Porta Cavallegieri.
		Fontana wrote this extensive description of the Templum Vaticanum by order of his patron and it was commissioned by the Congregazione della Rev. Fabricca di S. Pietro, in response to fears about the stability of the Vatical cupola built in the previous century by Michelangelo.
		A convention of leading architects summoned by Innocent XI had decreed that the structure was safe, and Fontana was requested to promulgate their conclusions at suitable places in his book.
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	St. Peter's - The Obelisk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This monolithic obelisk in red granite, 25 meters high and weighing approximately 1 million pounds, had been taken from the city of Alexandria by Caligula (37-41 A.D.) to be placed on the spine of the circus later to be known as Nero's, situated to the left of the Old Basilica.
		Given the difficulty of moving it, several projects were considered until Sixtus V entrusted the job to his favorite architect, Domenico Fontana, who presented a wooden model, containing a lead grid, a replica of the obelisk, which could be easily lowered and raised.
		His project met with the Pope's approval and on April 30, 1586, transport was begun, after a solid foundation had been built to support the obelisk in the center of the square but not on the median axis of the façade of the Basilica.
	www.stpetersbasilica.org /Exterior/Obelisk/Obelisk.htm (896 words)

	Fontana
		During World War II the huge 22-story Kaiser steel mill was built, and Fontana began its transformation from an agricultural to an industrial community.
		The city has grown extensively along with the development of southern California, and the population increased fourfold from the 1970s to 1990s.
		Fontana suffered a significant economic blow in 1983 when Kaiser closed its plant; in the early 1990s, parts of the factory complex were dismantled and shipped to China.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0819091.html (134 words)

	Sixtus V
		Together with two important architects, Domenico Fontana and Giacomo della Porta, he drew up a vast program of urban development, which was to constitute one of Europe's first attempts at town planning.
		Domenico Fontana reconstructed the Lateran Palace, formerly the pope's residence, and built the northern façade of St. John Lateran.
		An ancient Roman aqueduct, unused for centuries, was repaired and renamed Aquedotto Felice; it brought water from springs many miles away to supply the pope's new residence on the Quirinal Hill.
	www.inforoma.it /feature.php?lookup=sixtusv (374 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Domenico Veneziano
		Domenico Veneziano (1405?-1461), Italian painter, who was one of the chief innovators in early Renaissance painting in Florence.
		Giorgio Vasari, Italian architect, painter, and author of Lives of the Artists (10 volumes, 1550; revised 1568), began his joint biography of...
		Scarlatti, (Giuseppe) Domenico (1685-1757), Italian harpsichordist and composer, born in Naples.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Domenico_Veneziano.html (112 words)

	Vatican Obelisk
		In 1586, the Italian engineer Domenico Fontana moved an Egyptian obelisk to its present site in front of the Vatican in St. Peter's Square.
		Fontana’s plan for moving the obelisk was chosen from among hundreds of others.
		A variety of pulley blocks were required to work in conjunction with the 40 winches, each of which were powered with horses and men to supply the main lifting force.
	www.lhl.lib.mo.us /events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/civil/vatican.shtml (269 words)

	obelisk
		Fontana was commissioned in 1585 by Cardinal Felice Peretti to design a chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, and when the cardinal was elected Pope Sixtus V in the same year, Fontana became the architect to the papacy.
		Fontana's part in this large project included the designs of the Vatican, Lateran, and Quirinal palaces (see VATICAN PALACE), the Vatican Library, and completion of the dome of SAINT PETER'S BASILICA, all of which were executed between 1585 and 1590.
		In 1586, Fontana removed an ancient Egyptian obelisk from the side of the Vatican to its present position in front of Saint Peter's, where it distracts from the effect of Giovanni Lorenzo BERNINI's colonnades.
	www.masters-table.org /pagan/oblis.htm (1424 words)

	Column of Marcus Aurelius
		At some unremarked date, the upper part of the column was displaced a bit by an earthquake, and the twisting movement is just visible in the figure of Victory inscribing a shield that marks the end of the first part of the pictorial history (Marcomanni) and the beginning of the second (Sarmatian).
		In 1589-1590, on orders from Pope Sixtus V, Domenico Fontana carried out a major preservation and renovation project during which a statue of St Paul was substituted for the huge statue of Marcus Aurelius that originally topped the column -- St. Peter was mounted on Trajan's column at the same time.
		Fontana also renewed and strengthened the base, chiseling off the badly eroded decorations and inscriptions and adding a plain marble casing.
	www.mmdtkw.org /VMarAurColumn.html (799 words)

	Fontana
		Prospero Fontana - Fontana, Prospero, 1512–97, Italian mannerist painter, father of Lavinia Fontana.
		Lavinia Fontana - Fontana, Lavinia, 1552–1614, Italian painter, daughter of Prospero Fontana.
		Interview: Marian Fontana discusses the difficult decision by the families of 9/11 victims of whether to apply to a federal government compensation fund or file separate lawsuits (All Things Considered (NPR))
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0819091.html (386 words)

	Articles - Domenico Fontana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Domenico Fontana (1543 – 1607) was a Italian architect of the late Renaissance.
		He was born at Melide on the Lake of Lugano and died at Naples.
		Of more importance were the alterations he made in Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (c.1586), where he introduced into the loggia of the north facade an imposing double arcade of wide span and ample sweep, and probably added the two-story portico the Scala Santa.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Domenico_Fontana (712 words)

	arcidiocesi di Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni, duomo di Amalfi, associazione Chiesa per l'uomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On the altar (work of Domenico Fontana) there is a bronze statue of Saint Andrew (see photo), a gift from Philip III of Spain and there are marble statues of St. Stephen and St. Lawrence, by Pietro Bernini, on the trabeation which ends the altar.
		The relics of the Patron Saint, brought to Amalfi in 1208 by Cardinal Pietro Capuano on his return from the Holy Land, are kept under the altar.
		An impressive bronze statue by Michelangelo Naccherino rises above the altar (work of Domenico Fontana), and there are statues of St. Lawrence and St. Stephen at its sides, both by the father of Bernini.
	www.ecostieramalfitana.it /diocesiamalfi/cripingl.htm (191 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Domenico Fontana
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Domenico Fontana
		Fontana, city in San Bernardino County, southern California, in the San Bernardino Valley.
		Fontana, Carlo (1638-1714), prominent Italian architect of the late baroque style, whose work was instrumental in leading architecture from the...
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	Bed and breakfast Rome apartments rental (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Domenico Fontana for not to lose the head increased all the things : he used 140 horses, 14 buffalos, 40 gigantic capstans,a thousand of workers and spent lots of money, 40 thousand shields exactly.
		At the beginnings of '500 from the left of the stairs the Tridente was open.
		Santa Maria dei Miracoli was built in 1675-81 by Carlo Rainaldi and Carlo Fontana and the Santa Maria di Montesanto which was designed in 1662-79 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
	www.apartment-rome.com /info/piazzadelpopolo.htm (595 words)

	monuments
		Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) is the most famous of all the Roman fountains.
		The Fontana del Moro at the southern end of piazza was designed by Giacomo della Porta in 1576.
		In the centre of the piazza facing the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi is the Chiesa di Sant'Agnese in Agone, its façade designed by Bernini's bitter rival, Borromini.
	www.stud.u-szeged.hu /Gyari.Gabriella/monuments.htm (1668 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Maderno came to Rome in 1588, and started working for his uncle, Domenico Fontana.
		The dome was completed by Domenico Fontana in 1589, and inaugurated in 1593.
		It was originally intended to be decorated with mosaics for the 1600 Jubilee, but it could not be finished in time and plans were altered.
	www.nelepets.com /art/architectura01/peter.htm (1201 words)

	Domenico Mondo ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Domenico Beccafumi, The Descent from the Cross, 16th century
		Domenico Maria Canuti, The Madonna of the Rosary, 17th century
		Domenico Zenoni (Zenoi), The Deposition From the Cross, 16th century
	wwar.com /masters/m/mondo-domenico.html (757 words)

	The coat of arms of Clemens XI in the Vatican by Francesco Fontana
		All the visitors to the Vatican Museums are impressed by the "flying" coat of arms designed by Francesco Fontana for Clemens XI in the Cortile del Belvedere.
		Plate 5: Domenico Fontana - Mostra dell'Acqua Felice - Coat of arms of Sixtus V
		Plate 37: Francesco Fontana - Cortile della Pigna - Coat of arms of Clemens XI Plate 39: Francesco Fontana - Chiesa de' SS.
	members.tripod.com /romeartlover/Juv37.html (535 words)

	Carlo Maderno Biography / Biography of Carlo Maderno Biography
		He went to Rome before 1588 and worked for his uncle, Domenico Fontana, the architect to Pope Sixtus V. Not until 1596 did Maderno receive an important architectural commission--the church of S. Susanna; until then he lived as a stuccoworker and decorator.
		But, Della Porta made a more complex design in which no really dominant accent is felt: Maderno returned to the concept of a facade as something simple but building up to a climax at the center, and he used both sculpture and decorative elements to create a simple, uncluttered, but rich impression.
		Susanna was a great success, and in 1603 Maderno was appointed, with another uncle, Giovanni Fontana, to succeed Della Porta as architect to St. Peter's.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-carlo-maderno (500 words)

	FONTANA, DOMENICO (1543-1607) - Online Information article about FONTANA, DOMENICO (1543-1607) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sixtus V., he immediately appointed Fontana his See also:
		But the undertaking which brought Fontana the highest repute was the removal of the See also:
		death of Sixtus V., charges were brought against Fontana of misappropriation of public moneys, and See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FLA_FRA/FONTANA_DOMENICO_1543_1607_.html (520 words)

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