Camillo-Guarino Guarini
See also: Guarino Guarini
Camillo-Guarino Guarini (1624 - 1683) is a priest, a mathematician, a writer and a Italian Architecte . He was born with Modena.
He was all at the same time brilliant mathematician, professor of Littérature and Philosophie to Messine, and, as from seventeen years, architect of the Duc Philibert of Savoy. He wrote a series of books of mathematics, in Latin and Italian, of which Euclides adauctus .
Influenced mainly by Francesco Borromini, Guarini conceived a great number of public buildings and deprived with Turin, including the palates of the duke of Savoy, the church San Lorenzo (1666 - 1680), the vault Santissima Sindone (which sheltered the Suaire of Turin), the Palazzo Carignano (1679 - 1685), the convents of the Théatin S of Modena, Messine and Paris, and many other public edifices and ecclesiastics with Vérone, Vienna, Prague or Lisbon. He dies in Milan in 1683.
The part of its works carried out in Sicily, in particular in Messine, do of him one of the founding fathers of the sicilian Baroque, still stammering at the time.
In Architecture, one counts among his successors his pupil Filippo Juvarra, as well as the proper pupil of this last, Bernardo Vittone. -----
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