Giovanni Simonetti (1652 – 4 November 1716) was a Swiss
architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
, builder, and
plasterer
A plasterer is a tradesman or tradesperson who works with plaster, such as forming a layer of plaster on an interior wall or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. The process of creating plasterwork, called plastering, has been u ...
who was involved in the design of the
Jerusalem Church in
Berlin
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. He constructed the
Neue Kirche from 1701 to 1708.
He also plastered the
stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and a ...
ceiling at the
Alte Handelsbörse in Leipzig.
References
Swiss architects
1652 births
1716 deaths
People from Berlin
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