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Carlo Fontana at AllExperts (834 words) |
 | Fontana worked in Rome, assisted by his nephews Girolamo and Francesco Fontana, but he sent a model for the cathedral of Fulda, and others to Vienna for the royal stables. |
| Fontana's studio was one of the most prolific in Europe; its designs for fountains, tombs, and altars were often imitated or reproduced abroad. |
| Among Fontana's disciples, who spread his fame throughout Europe, were Giovanni Battista Vaccarini in Sicily, Filippo Juvarra in Italy and Spain, James Gibbs in England, Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann in Germany, Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt and Fischer von Erlach in Austria, and Nicola Michetti in Italy and Russia. |
| Carlo Fontana: Information from Answers.com (1049 words) |
| Carlo Fontana (Bruciato, Canton Ticino, 1634 or 1638 - Rome 1714) was the highly prolific and pre-eminent Roman architect of his generation, who was in part responsible for the classicizing direction taken by Late Baroque Roman architecture. |
| Fontana mainly worked in Rome, assisted by his nephews Girolamo and Francesco Fontana (1668-1708), but he sent a model for the cathedral of Fulda, and others to Vienna for the royal stables. |
| Fontana was principe of the Academy of Saint Luke in 1686 and 1692-1700). |
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