[1] Sansovino won the competition but the building construction was subsequently executed by Sangallo and Giacomo della Porta.

[3] The main construction of the church was carried out in 1583-1602 under the architect Giacomo della Porta based on the Latin cross arrangement.

[5] In 1634, the Baroque painter and architect Pietro da Cortona was asked by the Florentine nobleman Orazio Falconieri to design the high altar.

Some twenty to thirty years later, Falconieri resurrected the choir project but gave the commission to the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini, who changed the design to allow for the burial of Orazio's brother, Cardinal Lelio Falconieri.

[10] Carlo Murena, architect[11] Media related to Church of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini at Wikimedia Commons