Allio, Domenico dell
Allio, Domenico dell' (1505–63). Italian architect and engineer who fortified several towns in Styria, Carinthia, Slovenia, and Croatia against the Turks. His most important architectural work is the Landhaus (Seat of Regional Government), Graz (1556–63), the north and east sides of the courtyard of which are embellished with three superimposed ranges of arcades, one of the earliest assured Italian Renaissance designs in Austria.
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