Vignola

[ vee-nyaw-lah ]
/ viˈnyɔ lɑ /

noun

Gia·co·mo da [jah-kaw-maw dah] /ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ dɑ/, Giacomo Barocchio or Barozzi,1507–73, Italian architect.

Example sentences from the Web for vignola

  • The present edifice was the work of Vignola and Giacomo della Porta in 1582.

    Walks in Rome |Augustus J.C. Hare

  • He is said to have had Vignola's designs for the architectural parts.

    Intarsia and Marquetry |F. Hamilton Jackson

  • The whole is as painfully dry as the transfer of a student's compass from a page of Vignola.

    Cathedrals of Spain |John A. (John Allyne) Gade

British Dictionary definitions for vignola

Vignola
/ (Italian viɲˈɲɔːla) /

noun

Giacomo Barozzi da (ˈdʒaːkomo baˈrɔttsi da). 1507–73, Italian architect, whose cruciform design for Il Gesù, Rome, greatly influenced later Church architecture