Temple of the Consolation, Renaissance monument in Todi, Umbria region, Italy
The construction of the Basilica began in the 1508, according to the model designed from the Coveting architect, that it died six years after averlo realized; the archives of the Istituzioni Riunite di Beneficenza of Todi possess still some relative documents of expense to this factory and are only from they that we could have had news of that they worked round to it. It is along directory of names and dates who has one special taste of curiosity: 10 November 1508 was begun the excavation of the foundations: the architect Cola from Caprarola main head of the factory, he worked you from the 1508 to the 1512 and in the 1509 he directly assumed the job of two tribunes . the more celebrated architects of the age came calls to visit, to giving to seem, to design. Here, just, Baldassarre Peruzzi (the craftsman of the Farnesina) that it visits the factory in the 1518; in the 1531 the is the time of the Sangallo (craftsman of the Farnese Palace ) which ago followed, in the 1565, the Vignola (the craftsman of the Church of the Jesus, in Rome), In the 1567 the Alessi makes a design: the architect Martelli visits more times, from the 1584 to the 1587, the pillars and designs the windows of the cupola.
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Location: Todi, Perugia county, Umbria region, Italy
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