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Fontana, Domenico (1543 - 1607)


 
Inventor, designer

Domenico Fontana was a Swiss-born Italian architect of the late Renaissance. In 1586 he erected the 327ton obelisk in the Square of St. Peter's. This feat of engineering took the concerted effort of 900 men, 75 horses and countless pulleys and meters of rope. He gives a detailed account of it in Della transportatione dell'obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V (Rome, 1590)
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Fontana, Domenico
   
Curriculum vitae  
* 1543 Melide born
1586 He erects Obelisk in Square of St. Peter's in Rome
1586 he design mechanical devices fot the erection of obelisks
1590 he publishes “Della transportatione dell'obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V”
† 28.06.1607 Napoli died
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Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780
Secondary literature
 
thumbnail of33866009 Domenico Fontana Bibliography
Author: Ceccarelli, Marco
Published: 2013
 
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