December 27, 2011 <Back to Index> Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, 1654 Architect Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, 1645 Businessman and Philanthropist Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, 1832 This page is sponsored by: PAGE SPONSOR

Giovanni Antonio Viscardi (* 27 December 1645 in San Vittore, Grisons; † 9 September 1713 in Munich) was a Swiss architect of the baroque, who worked mostly in Bavaria. Giovanni Antonio Viscardi descended from a family which provided several architects who had worked in Bavaria, Styria and Mainz. He started his career as a Superintendent to Enrico Zuccalli before 1675; in 1678 he was appointed master mason and in 1685 chief architect. Dismissed in 1689, Viscardi worked as an independent architect until he became Zuccalli's successor as chief architect of the Bavarian court in 1706 with the Austrian occupation of Bavaria. He died in office.