BARABINO, CARLO. — Architect, born in Genoa on 11 February 1768, died there on 3 September 1835. In Rome he received from Barbieri the academic and eclectic education characteristic of his time. Upon returning to his native city, he worked intensively after 1818, the year in which he was elected municipal architect.
He built the façade of S. Siro in a classicism more sixteenth-century than Napoleonic; the Imperial-Lercari altar in the Cathedral, in which he adopted a Baroque motif; the Oratory of Our Lady of the Rosary, with a circular plan; and the completion of the façade of the church of the Annunziata, carried out after his death, which, because of the academic coldness of the pronaos, too discordant with the Baroque ensemble, aroused harsh criticism.