Camillo-Guarino Guarini

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The Carignano Palace in Turin.

Camillo-Guarino Guarini (January 7, 1624 - 1683) is best known as a prominent Piedmontese Baroque architect, active not only in Turin but also in other European sites including Sicily, France, and Portugal.

He was also a Theatine priest, mathematician, writer and architect.

Born in Modena. He became an ordained priest in the Order of the Theatines in 1639, and moved to Rome. He returned to Modena in 1647. In 1660, he moved to Messina. He became amathematician, professor of philosophy at Messina. It is claimed he first became an architect to the Duke Philibert of Savoy. He wrote a range of mathematical books in both Latin and Italian, of which Euclides adauctus is a work on descriptive geometry. In 1665, he published a mathematical-philosophical tract Placita Philosophica defending the geocentric universe against Copernicus and Galileo.

He designed a large number of public and private buildings at Turin, including the palaces of the duke of Savoy, the Royal Church of San Lorenzo (1666-1680), most of the Chapel of the Santissima Sindone (housing the Shroud of Turin, 1668, incorporating beginnings by Carlo di Castellamonte), the Palazzo Carignano (1679-85), the castle of Racconigi and many other public and ecclesiastical buildings at Modena, Messina, Verona, Vienna, Prague, Lisbon and Paris. He died at Milan.

In architecture, his successors include his pupil Filippo Juvarra, and Juvarra's pupil Bernardo Vittone. The latter published his designs in Architettura Civile in 1737..

He appears to have been influenced by BorrominiTemplate:Wittkower p404 (403-415.

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Church of the Somascian Order (never built in Messina)
Facade of Santissima Annunziata and adjacent Theatine palace (Messina, destroyed in 1908 earthquake)
Sainte Anne le Royale (1662, destroyed 1823)
Santa Maria della Divina Providenca 1755 destroyed earthquake)
San Filippo Neri (completed by Juvarra)
Colegio dei Nobili (1678, Turin)
Capella della Santissima Sindone (Turin)
San Lorenzo (Turin)
La Consolate (restored later by others)