Domenico Rossi (28 December 1657 – 8 March 1737) was a Swiss-Italian architect.Fulvio Lenzo, ''L'architetto Domenico Rossi di Morcote. Autore della chiesa e della faccita di Santa Maria Assunta dei Gesuiti,'' in Giorgio Mollisi ed., ''Svizzeri a Venezia nella storia nell'arte nella cultura nell'economia dalla metà del Quattrocento ad oggi,'' Arte&Storia, a. 8, n. 40, Editrice Ticino Management S.A., Lugano, 2008, 302-321

Biography

He was born in

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Ticino Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...

, and was a pupil of

Baldassarre Longhena Baldassare Longhena (1598 – 18 February 1682) was an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period. Biography Born in Venice, Longhena studied under the architect ...

. Later he became family architect of the noble Venetian houses of Dolfin, Savorgnan and Manin. In 1701 he directed the restoration of Palazzo Dolfin and in 1709 he was commissioned the renovation of the façade of

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church. In 1713 he designed the Baroque church of the Gesuiti, also in Venice, while in 1714-1715 he worked at the church of

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, in the shape of a Greek cross. In 1724 he built the Ca' Corner della Regina. One of his last works was the renovation of the Cathedral of Udine. Rossi died in 1737 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rossi, Domenico 1657 births 1737 deaths Architects from Ticino 17th-century Italian architects 18th-century Italian architects Architects from Venice