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<p><b>Alessandro Specchi</b> (1668 – 16 November 1729) was an Italian architect and engraver.

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<p>Born in 1668 in <a href="Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, he trained as an architect under <a href="Carlo_Fontana" title="Carlo Fontana">Carlo Fontana</a>. He also specialized as an <a href="Etching" title="Etching">engraver</a> and made a well known series of plates for prints of <i><a href="Veduta" title="Veduta">vedute</a></i> or views of Rome.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>As an architect, he was influenced by <a href="Francesco_Borromini" title="Francesco Borromini">Francesco Borromini</a>. His first major constructed work was the design of the <a href="Baroque" title="Baroque">Baroque</a> <a href="Porto_di_Ripetta" title="Porto di Ripetta">Porto di Ripetta</a>, the port of Rome, on the banks of the River <a href="Tevere" class="mw-redirect" title="Tevere">Tevere</a> or Tiber. With the design of this port Specchi broke with the classicizing architecture of his teacher Fontana. The port was destroyed in 1874 with the development of flood defences and the river bank road of <a href="Lungotevere" title="Lungotevere">Lungotevere</a>, and replaced by Rome's <a href="Ponte_Cavour" title="Ponte Cavour">Ponte Cavour</a>, and his fountain at the top of the port was moved to a nearby site.

</p><p>In 1711 he became a member of <a href="Accademia_di_San_Luca" title="Accademia di San Luca">the Academy of St. Luke</a>, the artists' academy in Rome.

</p><p>As the papal architect, he submitted a design for the famous <a href="Spanish_Steps" title="Spanish Steps">Spanish Steps</a> leading up from the <a href="Piazza_di_Spagna" title="Piazza di Spagna">Piazza di Spagna</a> to the French church of the <a href="Trinit%C3%A0_dei_Monti" title="Trinità dei Monti">Trinità dei Monti</a>, but the proposal by the little-known Italian architect <a href="Francesco_de_Sanctis_(architect)" title="Francesco de Sanctis (architect)">Francesco de Sanctis</a> was preferred by the French monks and the Steps were constructed to his design between 1723 and 1728.

</p><p>He designed and was involved with alterations to various Roman palaces: he designed the Palazzo de Carolis on the <a href="Via_del_Corso" title="Via del Corso">Via del Corso</a> (now the headquarters of the Banco di Roma),the high altar in the <a href="Pantheon%2C_Rome" title="Pantheon, Rome">Pantheon</a>, the Palazzo Pichini; and made alterations to the Palazzo Verospi and the Palazzo Albani, and additions to the <a href="Palazzo_del_Quirinale" class="mw-redirect" title="Palazzo del Quirinale">Palazzo del Quirinale</a>. His design for the church of the <a href="Suore_Oblate_del_Santo_Bambino_Ges%C3%B9" class="mw-redirect" title="Suore Oblate del Santo Bambino Gesù">Bambino Gesu</a> was not carried out due to lack of finance and he added the upper facade to <a href="Giacomo_Barozzi_da_Vignola" title="Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola">Vignola</a>'s church of <a href="Saint_Anne_in_Vatican" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Anne in Vatican">Saint Anne in Vatican</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Falda, G.B. with Specchi, A. <i>Il nuovo teatro delle fabbriche et edifice inprospettiva di Roma moderna</i>, G.G. De' Rossi, Rome, 1665-99</span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Blunt, Anthony. <i>Guide to Baroque Rome</i>, Granada, 1982, for further information about his architectural works</span>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFManfredi1991" class="citation book cs1">Manfredi, T. (1991). "Specchi, Alessandro". <i>In Urbe Architectus</i>. Rome. pp. <span class="nowrap">445–</span>448.</cite><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{cite book}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)</span></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFPortoghesi1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Paolo_Portoghesi" title="Paolo Portoghesi">Portoghesi, Paolo</a> (1998). <i>Roma barocca</i>. Bari. pp. 355–364 and 607–608.</cite><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{cite book}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)</span></li></ul>

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