DE ROSSI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. — Architect, born in Rome in 1616, died there on 9 Oct. 1695. Reared in the milieu dominated by the great personalities of Bernini, Borromini, and Rainaldi, he links the forms of his artistic language especially to certain classicist aspects of the latter, without however renouncing—especially in decorative solutions—a tone of Borrominian taste.
Among his architectural works are to be noted the Lancellotti chapel in S. Giovanni in Laterano, the church of S. Rocco (1657), whose façade is nineteenth-century, the church of S. Maria in Campo Marzio built in Greek cross form between 1676 and 1686, the interior of the church of S. Pantaleo, the chapel of the Monte di Pietà, often unjustly attributed to Mattia De Rossi. Among his secular buildings, particularly noteworthy is the part of the Altieri palace facing Piazza del Gesù, the Muti palace, and the wing of the hospital of S. Giovanni set aside for women.