title: Giovanni Battista Fornovo
text: # Giovanni Battista Fornovo
  
  Giovanni Battista Fornovo (1521–1575) was an Italian architect, active in a late-Renaissance style in Parma.
  
  Around 1560, he helped design the church of the Santissima Annunziata, Parma while working as the court architect for Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza.
  
  