Paolo Posi (1708 - 1776) was an Italian architect of the late-Baroque period. Among the cities in which he was active were Rome, Narni, and Viterbo. Among...
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long low facade designed by Nicola Michetti, with later additions by Paolo Posi with taller corner blocks (facing Piazza SS. Apostoli), was constructed...
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wife of Don Sigismondo Chigi Albani della Rovere. It was designed by Paolo Posi in 1772 and sometimes dubbed the "last Baroque tomb in Rome". By the time...
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Percier (1764–1838), French Giuseppe Piermarini (1734–1808), Italian Paolo Posi (1708–1776), Italian Jakob Prandtauer (1660–1726), Austrian Giacomo Quarenghi...
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to the Tiber flooding and so it was completely rebuilt to designs by Paolo Posi between 1766 and 1775, the year in which a new altar was consecrated....
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was largely rebuilt as a Baroque one. The façade (1798) was designed by Paolo Posi. The interior, like other Carthusian churches, is divided by an iconostasis...
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earthquake in 1753, and collapsed on 23 December, 1769; the architect Paolo Posi designed the layout completed in 1775. In 1798, Napoleonic troops stripped...
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designs in a late Baroque, early Neoclassical style from the architect Paolo Posi. Posi also designed the Palazzo De Vecchi in Siena. For this palace, the...
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Cardinal Giuseppe Spinelli to decorate the apse of the Cathedral restored by Paolo Posi; for the right wall, he painted the large oil of SS Januarius and Agrippino...
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Farnese, who died in childbirth at the age of 20. It was designed by Paolo Posi, a Baroque architect who was famous for his ephemeral celebratory architecture...
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