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Soria, Giovanni Battista
(b Rome, 1581; d Rome, 22 Nov 1651). Italian joiner and architect. As a young man he travelled and worked in Città di Castello, Borgo Sansepolcro, Florence and Palermo. On his return to Rome he was employed as a joiner on some of the most important buildings of the day. From 1614, if not earlier, he enjoyed the patronage of the Borghese family, working in the Cappella Paolina of S Maria Maggiore (1614–15), at the Palazzo Borghese (1615–22) and at the Palazzo della Famiglia Borghese (1625–6), all in Rome, as well as at Borghese properties outside Rome (1614–20). He provided woodwork for the portico (1618, 1624), the choir (1618) and the old baldacchino (1622–4) at St Peter’s, Rome, and in 1625 he prepared wooden models for the twisted columns, with their capitals and bases, of Gianlorenzo Bernini’s new baldacchino; in 1641 he made a full-size wooden model, c. 15 m high, for the uppermost part of the north campanile of the façade, following Bernini’s design.
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