Martino Longhi the Younger
Martino Longhi the Younger, Italian Martino Longhi il Giovane, ( born March 18, 1602 Rome, † December 15, 1660 in Viggiù ) was an Italian architect. He belonged to the dynasty of the architect Longhi.
Life
Martino Longhi was born in 1602 as son of the architect Longhi Honorius in Rome. He sat as an architect continued his father and his grandfather Martino Longhi the Elder and the work was able to maintain its position as one of the most original Baroque architect in competition to its contemporaries such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona.
Longhi was like his father, a member of the Accademia di San Luca. He was also known as a writer of poems.
1659 is the last time demonstrated his stay in Rome. He died on 15 December 1660 in the birthplace of his father in Viggiù and was buried there in the tomb of his family in the church of San Martino.
Works
Martino Longhi took over from his father, after his death in 1619, the site of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo. The date on which he worked as an architect is unknown and only saved from 1634. In 1642 he completed the interior of the church with the arching of the ships.
However, his most famous work was the church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio opposite the Trevi Fountain, which he performed from 1644 to 1650 on behalf of Cardinal Jules Mazarin. He used the first time to a baroque church freestanding columns, which form a second plane in front of the facade and cause an interesting light and shadow effects.
In 1653 he built the church Sant'Adriano al Foro order in which he again began the effect of free-standing columns in the interior. 1933, the church in the restoration of the Curia Iulia, in which it was built was destroyed.
More churches
- San Bartolomeo all'Isola, facade, 1623-1624
- Santa Maria della Consolazione
- Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi, facade, 1638
- Monastery of San Silvestro in Caprarola
Other buildings
- Palazzo Ginnetti in Velletri
- Palazzo Ruspoli, staircase, 1629