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Location Rome, ItalyArchitect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola born 1507, died 1573. His c arer illustrates the rigidity of Mannerist artifice in the later half of 16th century. His design of Il Gesu meant that Jesuitic missionaries carried copies of his design all over the world. His first major work was the villa (Rome) build for Pope Julius III, however Il Gesu was the most influential, although considered architecturally less adventurous. Vignola publish his own treatise, Regola delli Clinque Ordini dArchitettura in 1562. It became the standard textbook for architectural students, mainly in France, for about three centuries and nearly two hundred editions of it are known. Towards the barricade of his life, he built a gateway for the Farnese Gardens in Rome. The gateway was demolish in 1880, but tilts were preserved and it has been rebuilt.Builder Giovanni TristanoConstruction Date began 1958 (factual). mental imagery type ChurchStyle/Culture Italian Renaissance commen tary and Features Il Gesu displays a tunnel-vaulted nave (about 60 feet wide) and has four chapels on each side. The peculiarity walls are aligned with the outer walls of the chapels. The tunnel vault rises above the render that runs from the faade to the piers of the crossing. Due to the faade windows and the lunettes of the tunnel-vault, the nave is brightly lit, but in contrast, the chapels are dim. The diameter of the dome is equal to the width of the nave. Vignola accomplished this by having the chapels in the form of a continuous row into the piers of the crossing. The dome seemed to rest on surrounding walls, not on the three dimensional piers. The small chapels organize a passage in-between the nave and the transept.Original Use Il Gesu is the romish m early(a)-church of the Jesuit OrderConstruction History On June 26, 1568 the foundation stone was laid out, although it took years to finally decide on its situation, shape and size. Nanni di Baccio Bigi had submit ted a design for the church in 1550, and Michealangelo was called in to design it in 1554, but Vignolas designs were approved. The construction finally started when Cardinal Alessandro Farnese made a large fiscal contribution in 1586. Giovanni Tristano, a Jesuit father, and an architectural expert, who worked on other Jesuit churches prior to Il Gesu, directed the building. It is assumed that by 1571, Vignolas plans did not satisfy Tristano, because Giacomo della Porta was called to design the faade.