Matteo Castelli
Illustration — Facade of Santa Susanna in Rome. • Illustration — Royal Castle in Warsaw. Matteo Castelli (c. 1555, Melide, Switzerland - 1632, Warsaw) was a Swiss architect.
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Matteo Castelli
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Illustration — Facade of Santa Susanna in Rome. • Illustration — Royal Castle in Warsaw. Matteo Castelli (c. 1555, Melide, Switzerland - 1632, Warsaw) was a Swiss architect.
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His nephew Costante Tencalla also became an architect. Further can be attributed to Castelli: in Kraków the church of St. Peter and Paul (1613–1619, the only church north of the Alps in the Roman Baroque style), the Zbaraski princely chapel in the Dominican church (1627-1629) and the altar of St. Stanislaus in the cathedral, also in Vilnius cathedral the chapel of St. Casimir (1626–1636), the Ujazdowski palace and the royal residence near Warsaw. In Melide he donated a memorial chapel in 1625-1626 and rebuilt the altar of his family in the parish church.
• facade of Santa Susanna (in collaboration with Francesco Rossi, to plans by Carlo Maderno), 1597-1603 • Cappella Barberini at Sant'Andrea della Valle • Sant'Andrea della Valle (collaboration with Carlo Maderno) • Palazzo Mattei (collaboration with Carlo Maderno)
Florence
Florence
• Cappella Rucellai
Poland and Lithuania
Poland and Lithuania
• Royal Castle of Warsaw (rebuilding) • Ujazdów Castle in Warsaw (collaboration with Giovanni Trevano) in 1624 • Chapel of Saint Casimir in Vilnius
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1560
Matteo Castelli born at Melide.
1632
Matteo Castelli died at Warsaw.
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