Giovanni Battista Fornovo

Giovanni Battista Fornovo (1521–1575) was an Italian architect, active in a late-Renaissance style in Parma.[1]

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.[2]

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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