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Ricchini [Ricchino], Francesco Maria
(b Milan, 9 Feb 1584; d Milan, 24 April 1658). Italian architect. He was the son of Bernardo Ricchini ( fl late 16th century), a military architect. Ricchini rivalled his contemporary Carlo Maderno in Rome in the intensity of his effort to discard the bonds of Counter-Reformation conservatism. He trained under Lorenzo Binago (1554–1629), and at the beginning of the 17th century he made his first trip to Rome, under the sponsorship of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan. Like his elder cousin, Carlo Borromeo, author of the principal Counter-Reformation tract on architecture Instructiones fabricae et suppellectilis ecclesiasticae (1572), the Cardinal favoured an austere response to the eccentricities of Mannerism. Ricchini’s immediate predecessors and contemporaries in Milan were willing and able to satisfy this taste, but the young Ricchini, who returned to Milan in 1603, had clearly been impressed by the more progressive architectural developments in Rome.
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