DE ROSSI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. - Architect, b. in Rome in 1616, d. there on 9 Oct. 1695. Raised in the milieu dominated by the great personalities of Bernini, Borromini, and Rainaldi, he linked the forms of his artistic language above all to certain classicizing aspects of the latter, without, however, renouncing—especially in decorative solutions—a Borrominian stylistic inflection.
Among his architectural works should be mentioned the Lancellotti chapel in S. Giovanni in Laterano, the church of S. Rocco (1657), whose façade dates from the nineteenth century, the church of S. Maria in Campo Marzio, built on a Greek-cross plan between 1676 and 1686, the interior of the church of S. Pantaleo, and the chapel of the Monte di Pietà, often unjustly attributed to Mattia De Rossi. Among his civic buildings, particularly notable are the section of the palazzo Altieri facing the piazza del Gesù, the palazzo Muti, and the women’s section of the hospital of S. Giovanni.