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Tibaldi, Pellegrino
painter and architect; b. 1527; d. 1598.
Tibaldi began as a painter, the pupil of Danielo da Volterra. He was especially patronized by San Carlo Borromeo at Milan. Tibaldi applied the principles of Vignola to a large number of churches and palaces. In 1560 he began the reconstruction of the façade of the cathedral of Milan. Of this work five doors and five windows remain. He built the fine church of S. Fidele, Milan, begun 1569, the court of the archbishop's palace, Milan, 1570, the Palazzo della Sapienza, Pavia, 1562, the church of S. Gaudenzio, Novara, 1577, the church of S. Francesco da Paolo, Turin, and the court of the University, Bologna, 1570.
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