Domenico Fontana (1543—1607) (131 works)

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Domenico Fontana (1543-1607) was an Italian early Baroque architect and engineer.

Fontana was born in 1543 in the city of Melide. In 1563 he moved to Rome to study architecture. In Rome, Fontana was patronized by Cardinal Montalto, on whose order the architect built the chapel (Cappella del Presepio) in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, as well as the Palazzo Montalto. In 1585, Cardinal Montalto became Pope Sixtus V and appointed Fontana as chief architect of the papal curia.

During this period, Fontana created projects for the reconstruction of the Quirinal and Lateran palaces, the building of the Vatican Library. Together with Giacomo della Porta, he completed the construction of the dome of the Cathedral of St. Peter, in accordance with the drawings and models of Michelangelo. Fontana supervised the installation of the Egyptian obelisk in the square in front of the Cathedral of St. Peter (1586).

Together with his brother, the engineer Giovanni Fontana, he designed and built the Aqua Felice aqueduct.

Fontana later installed obelisks in Piazza del Popolo, Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore and Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano.

After the death of Sixtus V, he lived in Naples (from 1592), where he developed projects for the reconstruction of the harbor and the construction of the Palazzo Reale.

Fontana died in Naples in 1607.