title: Carlo Lurago
text: Carlo Lurago (also spelled Luraghi) (1615 – 22 October 1684) was an Italian architect, who was most active in Prague.
  
  He was born in Pellio Superiore in the Val d'Intelvi, near Como. At the age of 23, as an already an accomplished plasterer, he moved to Prague.  He would build several different Jesuit churches and cloisters there, including some at the Clementinum, in the early baroque style.  His first commission was the stucco decoration on the gothic St. Saviour Church in Prague.  He also worked on the Saint Eligius Chapel there in 1654, before his work was redone by Domenico Orsi.
  
  Lurago was also successful outside of Bohemia. He developed the plans for the Passau Cathedral. It is notable because the main altar has a series of flat elliptical domes. This arch design foreshadows many other buildings of the baroque style. Another notable example of his work is the pilgrimage church of Maria Taferl, which had to be completed by Jakob Prandtauer after Lurago died in Passau.
  
  Works
   1637–1659: Baroque town hall, Náchod
   1638–1648: St. Saviour, Prague
   1640–1642: Jesuit Church and College House, Březnice
   1650–1659: Modifications and enlargement of Náchod Castle
   c. 1650:   Modification of the Church of St. Mary-under-the-Chain, Malá Strana, Prague
   1651:      Modification of the Lobkowicz Palace, Prague
   1653–1660: The Clementinum, Old Town, Prague
   1653–1658: Modification and baroquification of the castle annex for the Counts of Herberstein, Gorzanów, Silesia
   1654–1666: Jesuit Church of the Assumption, Hradec Králové
   1654–1679: Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and of Saint Ignatius, Klatovy
   1655–1661: Modification of the Castle in Nové Město nad Metují
   1657–1739: Church of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Svatý Jan pod Skalou
   1658:      "Stone Birdhouses", Prague
   1659–1674: Cloister of the pilgrimage church of Svatá Hora in Příbram
   1578–1653: Clementinum, St. Salvator, Old Town, Prague
   1654–1690: Jesuit College Kłodzko, Silesia
   1663–1668: Cloister "im Waldl", Kladno
   1664:      New Inn, Tursko
   1665–1670: St. Ignatius Church, Prague
   1665–1670: Church of the Holy Trinity, Klášterec nad Ohří
   1666–1668: Hunting lodges for Humprecht Jan Czernin, Sobotka
   1668:      St. Stephen's Cathedral, Passau
   1670:      Pilgrimage church in Maria Taferl
   1673:      Jesuit college by the Church of St. Nicholas, Malá Strana, Prague
   1688:      Remodeling of St. Ignatius Church in Chomutov
  
  References
  The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.
  
  1615 births
  1684 deaths
  People from the Province of Como
  Italian Baroque architects