Porta (Giacomo della) 1541-1604
Della Porta, a Milanese architect, was a pupil of Vignola’s. His great work was the finishing of the dome of St. Peter’s in Rome, in doing which he followed Michelangelo’s plan, but improved the curve. His other works in Rome were: the churches of Il Gesù, S. Luigi de’ Francesi, S. Catarina de’ Funari, the Palazzo Paluzzi, the façade of the Palazzo Chigi, the famous fountains in the Piazza d’Araceli and the Piazza Navona (for which Bernini supplied the sculpture), and the Fontana delle Tartarughe. In Genoa he finished the church of the S. S. Annunziata, and he was employed on the Villa d’Este at Tivoli and the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati.