Giovanni Battista Montano belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Giovanni Battista Montano as Italian architect (1534–1621).
Giovanni Battista Montano was born at Milan in 1534. His recorded nationality is Italy.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect, wood carver and sculptor.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Giovanni Battista Montano died in 1621, aged 87. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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