BROGGIO, GIULIO and OTTAVIANO. — Architects. GIULIO, born in Milan, soon moved to Boenia, of which he became a citizen (1673); he died in Litomèrice in 1718. In Litomèrice he built the cathedral (1670–81), the chapel of S. Rocco (1675), the churches of Cizkovice, Dlazkovice (1675), and Palic (1688–92), the church of S. Adalberto, and the episcopal residence with its associated buildings (1689–1701).
OTTAVIANO, his son, born in 1688 in Litomèrice, died there in 1742. He built the churches of Maronice (1699), S. Venceslao in his native city (1714–16), where he had already (1704) erected the Jesuit church and restored the city church (1709), and of Roudnice (1728–34).
The style of the B. is representative of the particular taste which, in the countries of eastern Europe, transformed the acquired Renaissance forms into the scenographic and richly fluid vivacity of the Italian Baroque, felt more genuinely than the classicizing contributions of the preceding century.
BBL.: B. Bischoff, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, V, p. 51.