The five orders, engraving from Vignola's Regole delle cinque ordini d'architettura set the standards

Giacomo (or Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola (Vignola, near Modena, October 1, 1507 - July 7, 1573) was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism, also known as Vignola. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Chiesa del Gesù in Rome. Download high resolution version (456x721, 220 KB)Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Five orders, engraving from Regole delle cinque ordini darchitettura This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (456x721, 220 KB)Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Five orders, engraving from Regole delle cinque ordini darchitettura This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Modena (Mòdna in Modenese dialect) is a city and a province on the south side of the Po valley, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... // Events The western continent is named America on the maps of Martin Waldseemüller. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... Events January - articles of Warsaw Confederation signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland. ... Mannerism is the usual English term for an approach to all the arts, particularly painting but not exclusive to it, a reaction to the High Renaissance, emerging after the Sack of Rome in 1527 shook Renaissance confidence, humanism and rationality to their foundations, and even Religion had split apart. ... The Villa Farnese at Caprarola is sometimes incorrectly known as the Villa Caprarola. ... The Church of the Gesù. The Church of the Gesù is home to the famous painting of Madonna Della Strada, venerated by millions of Roman Catholics. ...

He began in Bologna, supporting himself by painting and making perspective templates for inlay craftsmen. He made a first trip to Rome in 1536 to make measured drawings of Roman temples, with a thought to publish an illustrated Vitruvius. Then François I called him to Fontainebleau, where he spent the years 1541‑1543. In Rome he was taken up by the papal family of the Farnese and worked with Michelangelo, who deeply influenced his style. From 1564 Vignola carried on Michangelo's work at St Peter's Basilica, and constructed the two subordinate domes according to Michelangelo's plans. Bologna (from Latin Bononia, BulÃ¥ggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... A template is some form of device to provide a separation of form or structure from content. ... Inlay: Decorative technique of inserting pieces of coloured materials to form patterns or pictures. ... The Temple of Hercules Victor, near the Teatro di Marcello in Rome (a Greek-style Roman temple) // Pagan history and architecture Originally in Roman paganism, a templum was not (necessarily) a cultic building but any ritually marked observation site for natural phenomena believed to allow predictions, such as the flight... Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. He was the author of De architectura, known today as The Ten Books of Architecture, a treatise in Latin on architecture, and perhaps the first work about this discipline. ... Francis I (French: François Ier) (September 12, 1494 – July 31, 1547), called the Father and Restorer of Letters (French: le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres), was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. ... Location within France Fontainebleau is a town and commune in France. ... The Farnese family was an influential family in Renaissance Italy. ... Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, colloquially known as Michelangelo, (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564) was a Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet. ... Interior view, with the nave of the Cattedra in the back St. ...

Some of Vignola's other outstanding work:

• The facade of San Petronio, Bologna, in competition with Giulio Romano and Andrea Palladio
• Villa Giulia for Pope Julius III, working with Vasari, (1550‑1555);
• Villa Farnese at Caprarola (1559-1573);
• Villa Lante at Bagnaia (1566 onwards), including the gardens and their water features and casini;
• Chiesa del Gesù, Rome, the mother church of the Jesuit order, which would become a source for Baroque church facades in the 17th century;
• Church of the Angels, Assisi;
• Church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, Rome, the first oval dome, which became a signature of the Baroque

His two published books helped formulate the canons of classical architectural style: Regole delli cinque ordini d'architettura "Rules of the five orders of architecture," (first published in Rome, 1562) and the posthumously-published Due regole della prospettiva pratica ("Two rules of practical perspective", Bologna 1583). Vignola presented without theoretical obscurities, practical applications that could be understood by a prospective patron. The three writers who spread the Italian style through Europe are Vignola, Serlio and Palladio. Giulio Romano (ca 1499? – November 1, 1546) was an Italian painter, architect, painter and decorator, the favorite pupil of Raphael, whose legacy Giulio Romano extended, and at the same time one of the inventors of 16th century Mannerism. ... Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 - August 19, 1580), or Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, was an architect born in Padua, Italy. ... The Villa Giulia stands in an area of Rome known as the Vigna Vechia (which was once against the city walls) lying on the slopes where Monte Parioli descends to the Tiber. ... Julius III, né Gian Maria del Monte or Giovan Maria Giocci (September 10, 1487 – March 23, 1555), was pope from February 7, 1550 to 1555. ... Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ... The Villa Farnese at Caprarola is sometimes incorrectly known as the Villa Caprarola. ... Villa Lante at Bagnaia near Viterbo, attributed to Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (there is no contemporary documentation) is, with Bomarzo, one of the most famous Italian 16th century Mannerist gardens of surprises. ... The Church of the Gesù. The Church of the Gesù is home to the famous painting of Madonna Della Strada, venerated by millions of Roman Catholics. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In the arts, Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the artistic style that dominated it. ... Crest of the township (comune) of Assisi Assisi (Latin: Asisium) is a town and episcopal see in Italy in Perugia province, Italy, in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Mt. ... St Peters Basilica, Rome A dome is a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In the arts, Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the artistic style that dominated it. ... A canon refers to a list or collection of books and scriptures accepted by an ecclesiastic communion as authoritative or divinely inspired. ... Sebastiano Serlio (Bologna 1475 – Fontainebleau ca 1554), the Italian Mannerist architect, was part of the Italian team building Fontainebleau. ... Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 - August 19, 1580), or Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, was an architect born in Padua, Italy. ...

In 1973 Vignola's remains were reburied in the Pantheon, Rome. His influence can be seen in the facade of St Peter's Basilica by Carlo Maderno. The Pantheon, Rome The Pantheon is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to the seven deities of the seven planets in the Roman state religion, but which has been a Christian church since the 7th century. ... Interior view, with the nave of the Cattedra in the back St. ... Façade of St. ...

External links

• Brief biographical sketch
• Paolo Zauli on Vignola from a Bolognese perspective
• Vignola's effect on garden design