Giovanni Vasanzio

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Giovanni Vasanzio or Jan van Santen (Utrecht c. 1550 — Rome 1621) was a Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver who spent his mature career in Rome, where he arrived in the 1580s. He worked as assistant to Flaminio Ponzio and completed works in progress at Ponzio's death (1613); he became in some sense the "house architect' for the Borghese, responsible for ephemeral decorations to provide settings for dynastic events both gay and grave.[1] After Vasanzio's death, Giovanni Battista Soria assumed his role with the Borghese.

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  1. ^ Flaminio Ponzio's cataflaque for the glamorous and stately funeral of Giovanni Borghese, Pope Paul V's brother, organized by Scipione Borghese in 1610, is discussed in Minou Schraven, "Giovanni Battista Borghese's Funeral 'Apparato' of 1610 in S. Maria Maggiore, Rome" The Burlington Magazine 143 No. 1174 (January 2001), pp. 23-28.
  2. ^ His role is most fully described in Howard Hibbard, The Architecture of the Palazzo Borghese (Rome: Amewrican Academy in Rome) 1962.
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