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Giovanni Battista Borra - Napolosa in Samaria

Napolosa in Samaria (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
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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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Top Panel: Plan, Column Details: Bottom Panel: View of a Ruined Theater, Probably that at Miletus

Top Panel: Plan, Column Details: Bottom Panel: View of a Ruined Theater, Probably that at Miletus (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
View of the Valley of Sardis and View of a Ruined Bridge

View of the Valley of Sardis and View of a Ruined Bridge (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Unfinished View of the Palatine in Rome

Unfinished View of the Palatine in Rome (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 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)
Two Corinthian Pillars Found near the Ionic Temple at Aphrodisias (now Geyve)

Two Corinthian Pillars Found near the Ionic Temple at Aphrodisias (now Geyve) (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Plan of a Temple at Mylasa and of Another Three Hours from Thence on the Road to Mandaleus

Plan of a Temple at Mylasa and of Another Three Hours from Thence on the Road to Mandaleus (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Part of the Portico of Philip at Delos

Part of the Portico of Philip at Delos (1751)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Topographical Map of Halicarnassus at its Harbor

Topographical Map of Halicarnassus at its Harbor (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)
View of Tivoli

View of Tivoli (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Reconstruction of the Proscenium of the Theater at Hierapolis

Reconstruction of the Proscenium of the Theater at Hierapolis (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Ruins at Pergamon, Probably of the Amphitheatre

Ruins at Pergamon, Probably of the Amphitheatre (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 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)
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