CARLO BARABINO. — Architect, born in Genoa on 11 February 1768, died there on 3 September 1835. He received his academic and eclectic training in Rome from Barbieri, in keeping with the spirit of his time. Upon returning to his native city, he worked intensively after 1818, the year in which he was appointed municipal architect.
He designed the façade of S. Siro in a classicism more reminiscent of the sixteenth century than of Napoleonic style, the Imperial-Lercari altar in the Cathedral, which adopts 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 Annunciation, executed after his death. The latter work, however, drew sharp criticism for the academic frigidity of its pronaos, which clashed too discordantly with the Baroque ensemble.