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Giorgio Massari (13 October 1687 – 20 December 1766) was an Italian late-
Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including th ...
architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near
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in 1715, the church of Santo Spritito in Udine, the church of Santa Maria della Pace 1720–46 in
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. In Venice, he often worked closely with
Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an import ...
in planning interior decoration of palaces. Among his masterpieces are the
Chiesa dei Gesuati Santa Maria del Rosario (St. Mary of the Rosary), commonly known as I Gesuati, is an 18th-century Dominican church in the Sestiere of Dorsoduro, on the Giudecca canal in Venice, northern Italy. The classical style building has a well-lit interio ...
(1726–43) located in Dorsoduro, Venice and the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky (1749). In the latter, Massari executed a traditional elegant marble-fronted Grand Canal palace facade, with Baroque rhythms and variations to the arrangement of bays, disrupting the classical simplicity. Massari also designed the scenographic staircase entry to Villa Giovanelli, Noventa Padovana. Massari finished some works by Longhena, for example, the heavily decorated Ca' Rezzonico, also found on the Grand Canal. Some of Massari's design were completed by his pupil
Bernardino Maccarucci Bernardino Maccarucci (c. 1728 – 1798) was an Italian architect, active in his native Venice. He was a pupil of Giorgio Massari, but most of his work in the declining republic was merely in reconstructions and restorations. He helped build t ...
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* 1687 births 1766 deaths Republic of Venice architects Italian Baroque architects {{Italy-architect-stub