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Sant' Elia, Antonio

(Encyclopedia)Sant' Elia, Antonio äntôˈnyō sänt āˈlēä [key], 1888–1916, Italian architect. Associated with the movement known as futurism, he created visionary drawings of futurist houses that he likened...

Baccaloni, Salvatore

(Encyclopedia)Baccaloni, Salvatore sälvätôˈrā bäk–kälōˈnē [key], 1900–1970, Italian operatic bass, b. Rome. Baccaloni studied architecture before he made his singing debut in Rome in 1921. In 1926 he ...

Guarini, Guarino

(Encyclopedia)Guarini, Guarino gwärēˈnō gwärēˈnē [key], 1624–83, Italian architect, mathematician, and writer. He was one of the first to analyze with perceptivity the structure of medieval architecture, ...

Zara, Italian name of Zadar, Croatia

(Encyclopedia)Zara: see Zadar, Croatia.

Filarete

(Encyclopedia)Filarete fēˈlärĕˈtā [key], c.1400–c.1465, Italian architect and sculptor, whose real name was Antonio Averlino, b. Florence. In the 1430s he went to Rome, where he studied the monuments of ant...

Farnesina

(Encyclopedia)Farnesina färnāzēˈnä [key], villa in Rome, Italy, built (1508–11) by Peruzzi for the banker Agostino Chigi at the foot of the Janiculum on the right bank of the Tiber. One of the finest example...

Juvarra, Filippo

(Encyclopedia)Juvarra, Filippo fēlēpˈpō yo͞ovärˈrä [key], 1678–1736, Italian architect of the late baroque and early rococo periods. Trained in the studio of Carlo Fontana in Rome, he entered (1714) the s...

Adam, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Adam, Robert ădˈəm [key], 1728–92, and James Adam, 1730–94, Scottish architects, brothers. They designed important public and private buildings in England and Scotland and numerous interiors, p...

Belluschi, Pietro

(Encyclopedia)Belluschi, Pietro pyĕˈtrō bəlo͞oˈskē [key], 1899–1994, Italian-American civil engineer, designer, and architect. Belluschi served as dean and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Techn...

Elizabethan style

(Encyclopedia)Elizabethan style ĭlĭzˌəbēˈthən [key], in architecture and the decorative arts, a transitional style of the English Renaissance, which took its name from Queen Elizabeth's reign (1558–1603). ...