Bartolommeo Genga
Illustration — Auberge de France in Birgu, Malta, whose façade was redesigned by Genga Bartolommeo Genga (1518–1558) was an Italian architect who was born in Cesena, Italy. He was the son of Girolamo Genga (1467–1551) and the brother-in-law of Giovanni Battista Belluzzi (1506–1554). At 20 years of age, Bartolommeo went to Florence, to continue the studies he commenced with his father.
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- 1518 · Cesena.
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- 1558 · Malta.
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Illustration — Auberge de France in Birgu, Malta, whose façade was redesigned by Genga Bartolommeo Genga (1518–1558) was an Italian architect who was born in Cesena, Italy. He was the son of Girolamo Genga (1467–1551) and the brother-in-law of Giovanni Battista Belluzzi (1506–1554). At 20 years of age, Bartolommeo went to Florence, to continue the studies he commenced with his father.
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In Florence, he befriended Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) and Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511–1592). After spending three years in Florence, he returned to his father, who was then building the church of San Giovanni Battista in Pesaro. Bartolommeo continued the building of San Giovanni Battista and built the Palace of Pesaro. Genga undertook major alterations to the façade of Auberge de France in Birgu, Malta. Genga was one of several architects who made preliminary sketches for a new city on Sciberras Hill. Genga died in Malta at age forty in 1558.
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1518
Bartolommeo Genga was born in 1518 at Cesena.
1558
Bartolommeo Genga died in 1558 at Malta.
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- 1.Malta University Services. Birgu: A Maltese Maritime City. 1. 8. 1993. 9789990944013.
- 2.Zahra, Lorenzo A. The Auberges of France in Birgu. The Malta Independent. 10 January 2007.
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- Portoghesi, Paolo, Dizionario enciclopedico di architettura e urbanistica, Roma, Istituto Editorale Romano, 1968-1969.
- Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Reprint of 1907 edition, Leipzig, Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1980-1986.
- Vasari, Giorgio, Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, many editions and translations.
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