Sindone chapel guarino guarini biography

Italian architect, priest, mathematician and writer (1624–1683)

For the early Renaissance writer, see Guarino da Verona.

Camillo Guarino Guarini (17 January 1624 – 6 March 1683) was an Italian architect of the PiedmonteseBaroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France and Portugal.

He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer.^[1][2] His work represents the ultimate achievement of Italian Baroque structural engineering, creating in stone what could be attempted today in reinforced concrete.

Biography

Camillo Guarino Guarini was born in Modena on 17 January 1624.

Following the chosen path of his eldest brother Eugenio, he entered the Theatine Order as a novitiate on the twenty-seventh of November, 1639 at the age of fifteen. He spent his novitiate at the monastery of San Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome, where he studied architecture, theology, philosophy and mathematics.^[5] During Guarini's Roman years, F