Matteo Castelli

Swiss sculptor and architect
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSwiss sculptor and architect
PlacesSwitzerland
wasArtist Sculptor Architect
Work fieldArts Engineering
Gender
Male
Birth1560, Melide, Switzerland
Death1632Warsaw, Poland (aged 72 years)
The details

Biography

Facade of Santa Susanna in Rome.

Matteo Castelli (c. 1555, Melide, Switzerland - 1632, Warsaw) was a Swiss architect. His nephew Costante Tencalla also became an architect.

Selected works

Rome

  • facade of Santa Susanna (in collaboration with Francesco Rossi, to plans by Carlo Maderno), 1597-1603
  • Cappella Barberini at Sant'Andrea della Valle
  • Sant'Andrea della Valle (collaboration with Carlo Maderno)
  • Palazzo Mattei (collaboration with Carlo Maderno)

Florence

  • Cappella Rucellai

Poland and Lithuania

  • Royal Castle of Warsaw (rebuilding)
  • Ujazdów Castle in Warsaw (collaboration with Giovanni Trevano) in 1624
  • Chapel of Saint Casimir in Vilnius
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