Giuseppe Giacalone was an architect, active in the second half of the 16th century; mainly in his native city of
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
, Sicily; and active in a
Mannerist style.
Born in the neighborhood of Capo in the quarter of
Seralcadi to a family of builders (capomastri). he helped design the facades of the Porta Nuova in Palermo. He helped roof the nave of the church of Santa Maria la Nuova and complete the cloister of the Convent of
Santa Cita. In 1586, the
Dominican order in town gave him the commission to design and build the new church of Santa Cita, completed in 1622.
Il Genio di Palermo
entry on architect.
References
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Date of birth unknown
Date of death unknown
Architects from Palermo
16th-century Italian architects
Italian Mannerist architects