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Castelli, Domenico, called Il Fontanino

CASTELLI, DOMENICO, DETTO IL FONTANINO

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CASTELLI, Domenico, called Il Fontanino. - Architect; date of birth unknown, d. 1657 in Rome. He was in Faenza from 1619 to 1621 (fountain in Piazza Grande) and from 1624 onward in Rome, where he carried on a great deal of activity as architect of the Apostolic Chamber.

Noteworthy are the restorations of the Lateran baptistery (1629-1635) and his participation in the works on the Palazzo Barberini. He perhaps also designed the facade of S. Anastasia (which some attribute to Arrigucci), certainly the church of S. Girolamo della Carità (1654), the high altar and the two side chapels in SS. Cosma and Damiano. He also erected the church of Monterotondo.

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BIBL.: O. Pollak, Die Kunsttätigkeit unter Urban VIII, Vienna 1928, passim; A. Santangelo, s. v. in Eur. Ital., IX (1930), p. 354; R. Battaglia, Un progetto ignorato del pontificato d'Urbano VIII. La mostra architettonica dell'Acqua Vergine in Piazza di Spagna, in Roma, 20 (1942), pp. 329-34.

Gilberto Ronci

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 1020.

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Ronci, Gilberto. “Castelli, domenico, detto il fontanino.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1020. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/castelli-domenico-detto-il-fontanino.

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Ronci, Gilberto. “Castelli, domenico, detto il fontanino.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1020. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/castelli-domenico-detto-il-fontanino.

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  title     = {Castelli, domenico, detto il fontanino},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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