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Giovanni Battista Borra - Plan of Lake Tiberias

Plan of Lake Tiberias (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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Plan of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Plan of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (ca. 1750)

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

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

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Pianura dell’Hermo in Faccia a Sardes

Pianura dell’Hermo in Faccia a Sardes (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 Ruins at Tivoli

View of Ruins at Tivoli (ca. 1750)

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Plans and Views of Two Pyramids, One Cephron’s at Giza

Plans and Views of Two Pyramids, One Cephron’s at Giza (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Details of a Corinthian Order at Geramo

Details of a Corinthian Order at Geramo (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
View of the Source of the Lycus River (Nahr el-Kelb)

View of the Source of the Lycus River (Nahr el-Kelb) (ca. 1751)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Details of a Corinthian Temple on the Acropolis of Pergamon

Details of a Corinthian Temple on the Acropolis of Pergamon (ca. 1750)

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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 Modern City of Pergamon

View of the Modern City of Pergamon (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)
Frieze and Capitals (

Frieze and Capitals ( (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
Details of a Composite Order from the Temple of Augustus at Mylasa

Details of a Composite Order from the Temple of Augustus at Mylasa (ca. 1750)

Giovanni Battista Borra (Italian, 1713 – 1770)
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