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Antoine Dérizet (16 November 1685 – 6 October 1768), of

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of ...

, was an experimentally classicizing French Late Baroque architect who spent much of his career in Rome, where he designed the churches of Church of SS. Claudius and Andrew of the Burgundian (1729), where he experimented with reviving the

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central planning of a

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surmounted by a central

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, and, facing Trajan's Forum, Santissimo Nome di Maria (1736–38), which is elliptical in plan, with radiating chapels. He also provided designs for the marble revetment and stuccoes added to the interior of

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(1759–64). Dérizet lectured at the

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on his theory of proportional harmonies between music and architecture. These theories, akin to those common in the

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but currently fallen into desuetude, failed to convince the architect

Giacomo Quarenghi Giacomo Quarenghi (; rus, Джа́комо Кваре́нги, Džákomo Kvaréngi, ˈdʐakəmə kvɐˈrʲenʲɡʲɪ; 20 or 21 September 1744) was an Italian architect who was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of neoclassical architectu ...

, who attended the lectures, according to his remarks in letters to the mathematician Alexander Barca in Padua. Quarenghi studied with Dérizet 'for about a year' just before the latter died of apoplexy.See the entry on Quarenghi in 'Vite de' pittori, scultori e archittetti Bergamaschi', Volume 2 by Francesco Maria Tassi online at Google Books. A close friend was the painter-collector Adrien Manglard (1695–1760), his compatriot at the Accademia. There is a caricature of Dérizet by

Pier Leone Ghezzi Pier Leone Ghezzi (28 June 1674 – 6 March 1755) was an Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome. Biography Ghezzi was born and died in Rome. He trained under his father, Giuseppe Ghezzi, who also trained Antonio Amorosi. ...

.Bent Sorensen, "Panini and Ghezzi: The Portraits in the Louvre 'Musical Performance at the Teatro Argentina'" ''The Burlington Magazine'' 144 No. 1193 (August 2002:467-474) p. 473 note 43.

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