Giacomo della Porta

Giacomo della Porta (c. 1532 Porlezza, Lombardy, † 1602 ) was an Italian architect and sculptor.

He was a pupil of Michelangelo and the most important mediator of his architectural achievements. After 1563 della Porta led using the plans of Michelangelo from the transformation of the Capitol Square with conservators and Senatorial Palace. In 1573 he was commissioned after the death of his teacher, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola with the supervision of Il Gesù, the mother church of the Jesuit order, the facade of which he completed in 1584 according to his own plans. Also in 1573 the management of the construction of St. Peter's, he was assigned for a year, the dome of which he completed along with Domenico Fontana from 1588 to 1590 and increased in deviation from the plans of Michelangelo once to four meters.

His most important works in chronological order are:

• Oratorio Most Holy Crucifix
• Church of the Gesù
• Fountain at Palazzo Borghese
• Fountain in Piazza Colonna
• Draft of the small fountain ( Fontana del Moro, Fountain of Neptune ) on the Piazza Navona
• Design of a fountain in the Piazza della Rotonda
• Senatorial Palace on the Capitol
• Palazzo della Sapienza
• Palazzo Capizucchi
• Santa Maria ai Monti
• Sant'Atanasio dei Greci
• Design of the facade of San Luigi dei Francesi
• Draft of the Fontana delle Tartarughe
• Santa Maria Scala Coeli
• Palazzo Marescotti
• Palazzo Serlupi
• Trinita dei Monti
• Fontana di Piazza alli Monti
• Dome of St. Peter's Basilica
• Fountain on the Piazza di Santa Maria in Campitelli
• Well over Santi Venanzio e Ansovino
• Fontana della Terrina
• Palazzo Fani
• San Paolo all Tre Fontane
• San Nicola in Carcere
• Palazzo Albertoni Spinola
• Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati
• Cappella Aldobrandini in Santa Maria sopra Minerva