Giacomo della porta biography definition

Giacomo della Porta (1532–1602) was an Italianarchitect and sculptor, who worked on many important buildings in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica.

Giacomo della porta biography definition

He was born at Porlezza, Lombardy and died in Rome.

Biography

Giacomo Della Porta was born in the Duchy of Genoa into a family of sculptors. He was influenced by and collaborated with Michelangelo, and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, his teacher of architecture.

With these two great masters he became one of the most important architects in the history of the Roman renaissance. In fact after 1563 he carried out Michelangelo's plans for the rebuilding of the Campidoglio or Capitoline Hill's open spaces where he completed the façade and steps of Palazzo Senatorio, and the Cordonata or the ramped steps up to the Pi