Giovanni Battista Borra

Italian, 1713 – 1770

Giovanni Battista Borra was an Italian architect, engineer and architectural draughtsman.

Borra was born in Dogliani. Studying under Bernardo Antonio Vittone from 1733 to 1736 (producing 10 plates for his teacher's Istruzione elementari per indirizzo de'giovani allo studio dell'architettura civile, published in Lugano in 1760), in 1748 he published a work of his own. This was a handbook on buildings' stability, practical in tone. He met Robert Wood in Rome, and joined his 1750–51 antiquarian expedition to Asia Minor and Syria as its architectural draughtsman before returning with Wood to England.

There he used his sketchbooks (now in the library of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London) to produce the original drawings (now in the Royal Institute of British Architects) for Wood's The Ruins of Balbec and The Ruins of Palmyra, and from 1752 to 1760 carried out commissions for English patrons. These works and their images led to motifs from Baalbek and Palmyra becoming fashionable for ceiling and interior decorations in England and Italy (Borra used them, for example, in his own work on the south facade of the Palazzo Isnardi and the interior decoration of its Sala d'Ercole and Sala di Diana, on the piano nobile). He is thought to have died in Turin.

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View of the Valley of Laodicea

View of the Valley of Laodicea (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of the Valley of Hierapolis (now Pamukkale)

View of the Valley of Hierapolis (now Pamukkale) (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of the Theater and Plan of the Ionic Temple at Sardis

View of the Theater and Plan of the Ionic Temple at Sardis (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of the Ruins of an Ionic Temple at Sardis, Probably the Temple of Neptune

View of the Ruins of an Ionic Temple at Sardis, Probably the Temple of Neptune (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of the Ruined Theater of Aezani at Tjaden

View of the Ruined Theater of Aezani at Tjaden (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of the Ruined Baths at Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli

View of the Ruined Baths at Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of the Modern City of Pergamon

View of the Modern City of Pergamon (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Posizione delle Piramidi di Sachara

Posizione delle Piramidi di Sachara (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of Scutari (Ancient Chrysopolis, Now Called Uskudar)

View of Scutari (Ancient Chrysopolis, Now Called Uskudar) (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of Samos

View of Samos (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of Ruins of the Asclepium at Pergamon

View of Ruins of the Asclepium at Pergamon (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of Ruins at Tivoli

View of Ruins at Tivoli (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of Micale Promontorio

View of Micale Promontorio (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of Maglova Aqueduct

View of Maglova Aqueduct (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of Hill Towns or Ruins near Damascus

View of Hill Towns or Ruins near Damascus (1751)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of Artaki (now Erduk)

View of Artaki (now Erduk) (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of a Valley with Ruins at Sardis

View of a Valley with Ruins at Sardis (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of a Passage Cut into a Hillside

View of a Passage Cut into a Hillside (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

View of a Long Aqueduct

View of a Long Aqueduct (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Details of a Doric Order from the Forum of Halicarnassus and Details from a Temple in Geyna

Details of a Doric Order from the Forum of Halicarnassus and Details from a Temple in Geyna (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Is’Tmo di Cizico unito al Continente

Is’Tmo di Cizico unito al Continente (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Gierusalemme

Gierusalemme (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Frieze and Capitals (

Frieze and Capitals ( (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Frieze and Capital of the Ionic Temple at Toreh

Frieze and Capital of the Ionic Temple at Toreh (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Facade of a Baroque Church, Probably the Facade that Bernini Added to Pichetti’s Chiesa da le Barberine in Rome in 1639

Facade of a Baroque Church, Probably the Facade that Bernini Added to Pichetti’s Chiesa da le Barberine in Rome in 1639 (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Door in the Corinthian Order from Aphrodisias (now Geyve)

Door in the Corinthian Order from Aphrodisias (now Geyve) (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Details of the Theater Composed of the Composite Order at Hierapolis (Now Pamukkale)

Details of the Theater Composed of the Composite Order at Hierapolis (Now Pamukkale) (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Details of the Ionic Temple at Toreh

Details of the Ionic Temple at Toreh (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Details of the Corinthian Order at the Third Theater of Laodicea and Plan of the Circus at Laodicea

Details of the Corinthian Order at the Third Theater of Laodicea and Plan of the Circus at Laodicea (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

Details of an Ionic Capital, Column, and Frieze from Hierapolis (now Pamukkale)

Details of an Ionic Capital, Column, and Frieze from Hierapolis (now Pamukkale) (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)

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