Raffaele Stern was an Italian architect.

Born in 1774, he was educated in Winckelmann

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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's classical and neoclassical

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...

 principles, and designed a plan for a New Wing of the Museo Chiaramonti in the Vatican Museums

Vatican Museums

The Vatican Museums , in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City, are among the greatest museums in the world, since they display works from the immense collection built up by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries, including some of the most renowned classical sculptures and...

 in 1805-1806, which he was commissioned to enact in 1817. He also worked on the papal restoration of the Colosseum

Colosseum

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 and Arch of Titus

Arch of Titus

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 which were later taken on by Giuseppe Valadier

Giuseppe Valadier

Giuseppe Valadier was an Italian architect and designer, urban planner and archeologist, a chief exponent of Neoclassicism in Italy.-Biography:...

. He also built a new Fontana dei Dioscuri

Fontana dei Dioscuri

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 in 1818 for Pope Pius VII

Pope Pius VII

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 supporting an ancient Roman granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 seashell

Seashell

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 (found in the 16th century) on top of a large basin. His pupils included Luigi Poletti

Luigi Poletti (architect)

Luigi Poletti was an Italian neoclassical architect.-Biography:He was born in Modena.He studied under Raffaele Stern, and directed the reconstruction of Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura...

.

Stern died in Rome in 1820.

Source

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