{{Infobox person | image = Perugia, busto di Galeazzo Alessi (03).jpg | birth_date = 1512 | birth_place = [[Perugia]] | death_date = 30 December 1572 | death_place = Perugia | occupation = [[Architect]] | years_active = 1536-1572 }} {{Short description|Italian architect}} [[Image:Galeazzo Alessi, Progetto originario per la facciata di Palazzo Marino a Milano.jpg|thumb|Alessi's original project for the façade of Palazzo Marino, Milan, altered in the execution]] '''Galeazzo Alessi''' (1512 – 30 December 1572) was an Italian [[architect]] from [[Perugia]], known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the direction of [[Giovanni Battista Caporali]].<ref name="sturgis41">{{cite book|last1=Sturgis|first1=Russell|title=A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Volume I|year=1901|publisher=Macmillan|page=41}}</ref>
For a number of years he lived in [[Genoa]]. He was involved in the lay-out of the streets and the restoration of the city walls, as well as being responsible for many of its impressive [[palazzo|palazzi]], now a part of the [[World Heritage List]]. Alessi displayed particular aptitude for organizing compositions on sloping sites.<ref name="penguin">{{cite book |last1=Fleming |first1=John |last2=Honour |first2=Hugh |last3=Pevsner |first3=Nikolaus |title=The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture |date=1998 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=0-14-051323-X|page=10 |edition=5}}</ref> * Saint-Georges Church, Périgueux, France His work can be found in many other Italian cities, including in [[Ferrara]], [[Bologna]], [[Naples]] and [[Milan]], where he designed the facade of [[Santa Maria presso San Celso]]. With [[Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola|Vignola]], he designed the [[Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli]] in Assisi, the seventh largest Christian church at the time. Elsewhere in Europe, he designed churches and palaces in France, Germany and [[Flanders]].<ref name="sturgis41"/> He produced designs for [[El Escorial]] in [[Spain]], but age and health prevented him from carrying them out.
==Selected works==
=== [[Perugia]] === * Rocca Paolina, remodelling * Loggia at the Oratorio di S. Angelo della Pace * S. Maria del Popolo (Camera di Commercio) * Loggia for the [[Palazzo dei Priori]], remodelling * Convent of Santa Giuliana (S. Caterina) * Portale of the Villa del Leone * Doorway in the southern flank of the [[Perugia Cathedral|Duomo]] * Works for [[San Pietro, Perugia|San Pietro]]
===[[Assisi]]=== * [[Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli]] * Tabernacle of San Francesco ([http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/341916 original design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art]) * Works in the [[Cathedral of San Rufino]]
===[[Genoa]]=== * Villa Giustiniani-Cambiaso, [[Albaro]] * Basilica of [[Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta (Genova)|S. Maria Assunta, Carignano]]<ref name="curl">{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |title=Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860678-9|edition=2}}</ref> * Porta del Molo (Porta Siberia), inserted in the city walls * Cupola of [[Genoa Cathedral|St. Lawrence Cathedral]]<ref name="sturgis41"/> * [[Villa delle Peschiere]] * [[Villa Grimaldi-Sauli in Bisagno]] * Proposals for the palazzi in the [[Via Garibaldi (Genoa)|Strada Nuova]]<ref name="sturgis41"/><ref name="curl"/>
=== [[Milan]] === * [[Palazzo Marino (Municipio di Milano)]], for the Genoese [[Tommaso Marino]].<ref name="sturgis41"/><ref name="penguin"/> * [[San Barnaba (Milan)|San Barnaba]]<ref name="curl"/><ref name="penguin"/> * Auditorium of the Scuole Canobiane * [[Santa Maria presso San Celso]]<ref name="sturgis41"/><ref name="curl"/> * San Raffaele * Various projects in the [[Duomo di Milano]], including the monument of the Arcimboldi.
===[[Sacro Monte di Varallo]] ([[Province of Vercelli|Vercelli]])=== * City plan
===[[Rome]]=== *Unexecuted designs for the [[Church of the Gesù]]
==References== {{reflist}} *Rossi, ''Di Galeazzo Alessi memorie'' (Perugia, 1873) * Emmina De Negri, ''Galeazzo Alessi : architetto a Genova'', (Quaderni dell'Istituto di storia dell'arte dell'Università di Genova, number 1, (Genoa) 1957). * ''Galeazzo Alessi e l'architettura del Cinquecento'', atti del convegno internazionale di studi : Genoa, 16–20 April 1974, (Genoa 1975) * R. L. Torrijos, "Un testamento dimenticato di Galeazzo Alessi", in ''Architettura, storia e documenti'', '''1''' (1985:97-100) *{{CathEncy|wstitle=Galeazzo Alessi|author=[[Thomas Henry Poole]]}}
==External links== {{EB1911 poster|Alessi, Galeazzo}} * {{cite EB9 |wstitle = Galeazzo Alessi |volume= I | page=479 |short=1}} *{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Alessi, Galeazzo|short=x}}
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