Ennemond Alexandre Petitot (1727-1801) was a French-born architect, mainly active in the Duchy of Parma.

Biography

He was born in

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in 1727, and by 1741, he had joined the studio of the architect

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. From there he moved to study at the

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in Paris. From there he moved under a grant to study architecture in Rome, and was there recruited by the prime minister

Guillaume du Tillot Léon Guillaume (du) Tillot (Bayonne, 22 May 1711 — Paris, 1774) was a French politician infused with liberal ideals of the Enlightenment, who from 1759 was the minister of the Duchy of Parma under Philip, Duke of Parma and his wife Princess Lou ...

to become the architect of the recently installed Bourbon Dukes in Parma. His projects envisioning updating the Duchy along the lines of the Neoclassical style regnant in France. Many of his ambitious projects have either been reduced, razed, or remained unfinished. He also published series of engravings on various designs for architectural decoration. Among his architectural projects in the Duchy of Parma *Venaria (Ducal hunting lodge) at Colorno (1753) *Apartments (1755) and staircase for Ducal Palace of Colorno *Sculptural Vases for Ducal Garden in Parma (1754), collaboration with the French sculptor Jean Baptiste Boudard (1710-1768) similar to those found in gardens at

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*Loggia at theater at Ducal Palace of Parma with Boudard (1760) *Facade of the church of San Pietro (1761-1762) *Plans for boulevard-promenade (1763) along what is now Stradone Martiri della Liberta (at the time, he name had changed from the Stradone Farnese to Stradone Borbone); it was to be marked at the ends by two architectural units: **At the Western end, ant the intersection with Strada Firini, a ''Colonna Borbone'' (Bourbon column), a 90-foot monumental free-standing doric column topped by Bourbon coat of arms **At the Eastern end, the still-extant Casino del Caffè, now Casino Petitot designed as fashionable meeting spot, but now somewhat isolated in a traffic circle *Ara Amicitiae monument (1769, since destroyed) *Designs for Biblioteca Palatina (1766), completed by Drugman *Temple of Arcadia in the Gardens of Colorno (1769) With the fall of minister du Tillot, and later the dislocations occurring Northern Italy after the French Revolution, the influence and scope of commissions for Petitot waned. He kept a teaching appointment at the Academy of Fine Arts of Parma.Fondazione Cariparma
biography prepared for exhibit in memory of the 200th anniversary of his death: ''E. A. Petitot nel bicentenario della morte: I disegni nella collezione della

Fondazione Cariparma The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e Monte di Credito su Pegno di Busseto, known as Fondazione Cariparma, is an Italian banking foundation and former bank that spin off its banking activities in 1991. The foundation currently is a minority ...

'', held at , Parma, in 2002. He died in his house in Marore, where he had built a small private theater (teatrino
Beni Culturali, Emilia Romagna
Teatrino di villa Petitot, Marore.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Petitot, Ennemond Alexandre 18th-century French architects 18th-century Italian architects Architects from Lyon Italian neoclassical architects Prix de Rome for architecture 1727 births 1801 deaths