Enrico Zuccalli (''Johann Heinrich Zuccalli''; c. 1642 – 8 March 1724) was a Swiss

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who worked for the

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regents of

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and

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Biography

Zuccalli was born in Roveredo,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. From 1669 he lived in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

and became a major representative of the introduction of Italian Baroque architecture to Germany. He was a bitter rival of another Swiss architect,

Giovanni Antonio Viscardi Giovanni Antonio Viscardi (27 December 1645 – 9 September 1713) was a Swiss architect of the baroque, who worked mostly in Bavaria. Biography Giovanni Antonio Viscardi was born in San Vittore, Grisons. He was descended from a family wh ...

. In 1672 Zuccalli became chief architect of the Bavarian court as successor of Agostino Barelli and remained in office until the Austrian invasion of Bavaria in 1706. He died in

. He was the uncle of (Giovanni) Gaspare Zuccalli who built two churches at Salzburg.

Chief works

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since 1674 (completing the work of Barelli) * Residenz, Munich (1680–1701) * Lustheim Palace (1684–1689) *

Palais Porcia The Palais Porcia is a Baroque mansion in Munich, southern Germany, which served as residence for Count Fugger. It is Munich's oldest still existing Baroque style palace. Building style Enrico Zuccalli built the mansion in Italian baroque ...

in Munich (1694) * Electoral Palace of

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(1697–1702) (later completed by de Cotte) *

Schleissheim Palace The Schleißheim Palace (german: Schloss Schleißheim) comprises three individual palaces in a grand Baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim, a suburb of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The palace was a summer residence of the Bavarian ruler ...

(1701–1704) (later completed by Effner) * Re-built

Ettal Abbey Ettal Abbey (german: Kloster Ettal) is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Ettal close to Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town i ...

(1709–26)Fleming, John, et al. (1972) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture''; 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 315

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