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Giovanni Battista Fornovo

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(Redirected from Giambattista Fornovo) Italian architect

Giovanni Battista Fornovo (1521–1575) was an Italian architect, active in a late-Renaissance style in Parma.

Around 1560, he helped design the church of the Santissima Annunziata, Parma while working as the court architect for Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza.

References

  1. Italy 1530-1630 by Eric Cochrane.
  2. Nuovissima guida per osservare le pitture si a olio che a fresco esistenti Attualmente nelle chiese di Parma, by Giuseppe Bertoluzzi (1830), page 6.
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