page_title: Carlo Fontana
section_title: Works in Rome
hierarchical_section_title: Carlo Fontana / Works in Rome
context_page_description: Carlo Fontana was an Italian architect originating from today's Canton Ticino, who was in part responsible for the classicizing direction taken by Late Baroque Roman architecture.
context_section_description: Palazzo Giustiniani. Rebuilding and refurbishing, with Francesco Borromini and others
  Palazzo Montecitorio (1694–97); the headquarters of the Camera dei Deputati of the Italian government since 1871.
  Façade of the church of San Marcello al Corso (1682–83). The slightly concave façade with the emphatic portico, the masterfully rhythmic use of Corinthian columns and pilasters, the subtle integration of upper and lower storeys and the independent counterpoint of friezes and cornices all exemplify Fontana's youthful manner, working in the organic Baroque that would be replaced by his later restrained academic Baroque. The conventional scrolls that ordinarily flank the upper central section are appropriately replaced with the martyr's palms.
  Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, in collaboration with Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1662–79).
  Church of San Biagio in Campitelli (1655).
  Basilica di San Clemente, 1713–19. Restorations.
  Interior of Basilica dei Santi Apostoli (1702–08).
  The fountain in the left of the Piazza San Pietro (1675).
  The fountain in front of Santa Maria in Trastevere, one of the oldest fountains of Rome, was restored by Fontana
  The Cybo Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo (1682–87).
  Sistine Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore (1671).
  Ginetti Chapel in Sant'Andrea della Valle (1671).
  Albani Chapel in San Sebastiano fuori le mura (1705).
  Biblioteca Casanatense at Santa Maria sopra Minerva (1708). Fontana's magnificent salone houses the library that was donated by Cardinal Casanate in 1698. The library was opened in 1725 .
  The great complex of San Michele a Ripa, with Mattia de' Rossi. The Chiesa Grande dates from 1706.
  Baptismal font, St. Peter's Basilica (1692–1698).
  The tombs of Popes Clement XI and Innocent XII.
  The tomb of Queen Christina of Sweden in St. Peter's Basilica (1702).
  Villa Cetinale in Tuscany.
caption: Santi Apostoli ceiling.
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