Carlo Promis (1808 – 1873 in
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
, Italy) was an Italian architect and architectural historian and a proponent of
Eclecticism
Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in ...
.
Promis earned his degree in architecture at Turin in 1828 and subsequently worked in Rome alongside leaders in the field of ancient architectural history, including
Carlo Fea
Carlo Fea (4 June 1753 - 18 March 1836) was an Italian archaeologist.
Biography
Born at Pigna, in Liguria, Fea studied law in Rome, receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of La Sapienza, but archaeology gradually attracte ...
,
Luigi Canina
Luigi Canina ( Casale Monferrato, 1795 – Florence, 1856) was an Italian archaeologist and architect.
Luigi Canina, Italian architect and archeologist, was born in Casale Monferrato in 1795 and died in Florence in 1856. He was a pupil of Ferd ...
, and
Antonio Nibby
Antonio Nibby (October 4, 1792 at Rome – December 29, 1839 at Rome) was an Italian archaeologist and topographer.
Nibby was a critic of the history of ancient art and from 1812 in service to the Vatican worked to excavate the monuments of R ...
. He studied ancient sites, including
Alba Fucens
Alba Fucens was an ancient Italic town occupying a lofty location (1,000 m) at the foot of the Monte Velino, c. 6.5 km north of Avezzano, Abruzzo, central Italy. Its remains are today in the ''comune'' of Massa d'Albe.
History
It was ...
, and carried out new projects in Turin.
References
*Politecnico di Torin
1808 births
1873 deaths
19th-century Italian architects
Architects from Turin
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