Giovanni Maria Bernardoni practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Giovanni Maria Bernardoni as Italian architect.
Giovanni Maria Bernardoni was born at Laino in 1541. His recorded nationality is Duchy of Milan.
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.
Among his best-known works are Corpus Christi Church in Niasviž and Nesvizh Castle. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Duchy of Milan shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Giovanni Maria Bernardoni died in 1605, aged 64. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Corpus Christi Church in Niasviž
- Notable work: Nesvizh Castle
