Giacomo del Duca
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sculptor and architect
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during the late-Renaissance
Renaissance
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or Mannerist
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period. He is most remembered for assisting Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
in a number of projects in Rome
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, including the sculpture and construction of the tomb of Pope Julius II, completed in a highly truncated state relative to the original design, in San Pietro in Vincoli
San Pietro in Vincoli
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. He also modified Michelangelo's plans for buildings in the Capitoline Hill
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, one of the most famous and highest of the seven hills
Seven hills of Rome
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of Rome
Rome
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Also known as Jacobo Siciliano or Jacopo Del Duca, Giacomo del Duca was born in Cefalù
Cefalù
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, Palermo
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, Sicily
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, Italy
Italy
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. He also participated in the decoration of Porta Pia
Porta Pia
Porta Pia is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. One of Pope Pius IV's civic improvements to the city, it is named after him. Situated at the end of a new street, the Via Pia, it was designed by Michelangelo in replacement for the Porta Nomentana situated several hundred meters...
(1562) in Rome; the construction of the Palazzo Cornaro for the cardinal Alvise Cornaro
Alvise Cornaro
Alvise Cornaro was an Italian patron of arts, also remembered for his four books of Discorsi about the secrets to living long and well with measure and sobriety....
; the construction of the Villa Mattei al Celio; and the completion of the nave substructure for the church of Santa Maria di Loreto
Santa Maria di Loreto (Rome)
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(1573-1576). He helped design the church of Santa Maria in Trivio
Santa Maria in Trivio
Santa Maria in Trivio is a church in Rome. It is dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus, and is located on Piazza dei Crociferi in rione Trevi.In 1571 the church was given to the Order of the Crociferi. Between 1573 and 1575 the architect Giacomo del Duca rebuilt the church, designing e.g. the...
(1575). He also helped sculpt the tomb of Elena Savelli (1570) in San Giovanni in Laterano. In 1588, Del Duca returned to Sicily, and settled in Messina, where he completed a number of late mannerist structures, such as San Giovanni dei Gerolamini and the Loggia dei Mercanti
Loggia dei Mercanti
The Loggia dei Mercanti is a historical palace in Ancona, central Italy.The palace was begun in 1442 by architect Giovanni Pace, also known as Sodo, in an economically flourishing period for Ancona. It was built near the port, which was the trade point of the mercantile republic in medieval times,...
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Jacopo del Duca is a character in Manuel Mujica Láinez
Manuel Mujica Laínez
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's Bomarzo, a novel about the Orsini family and its sacred grove of monsters
Bomarzo
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