Galeazzo Alessi

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Galeazzo Alessi (1512- December 30, 1572) was an Italian architect born and died at Perugia, and trained by Giovan Battista Caporali. He was an enthusiastic student of ancient architecture, and his style gained for him a European reputation.

Genoa is indebted to him for a number of its most magnificent palaces, now a part of the World Heritage List, and specimens of his skill may be seen in the churches of San Paolo and Santa Vittoria at Milan, in certain parts of the El Escorial, and in numerous churches and palaces throughout Sicily, Flanders and Germany.

He also designed the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, the seventh largest Christian church at the time.

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• Rossi, Di Galeazzo Alessi memorie (Perugia, 1873)
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