CONTINI, GIOVANBATTISTA. — Architect, born in Rome in 1641 and died there in 1723. Rather than from his father Francesco, an architect of very limited ability, he drew his inspiration from the work of Bernini, whose simpler styles and more classical aspects he continued. In Rome he decorated several chapels, among them that of St Rita in S. Agostino and that of St Peter of Alcantara in S. Maria in Arcoeli; at Montecassino he built the loggia called del Paradiso and the library, then the church of S. Domenico in Ravenna, and in northern Lazio other places of worship at Vignanello, Vetralla, etc., always in very restrained forms. His best work remains the church of the Stimmate in Rome, whose façade was added after his death by A. Canevari; in it the spatial interpretations of late Baroque are clearly evident.
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Bibl.: O. Pollak, s. V. in Thieme-Beckr, VII, pp. 338-39 (with bibl.); T. H. Fokker, Rome baroque art, Oxford 1935.