Francesco Azzurri (
Rome, 1831-1901) was an Italian architect. He was the nephew of the architect
Giovanni Azzurri Giovanni may refer to:
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, a professor of architecture at the
Academy of St. Luke
The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...
in Rome.
Biography
Francesco studied Engineering and Architecture at the University of Rome, under San Bartolo and Sereni, afterward in the
Accademia di San Luca under his uncle. He traveled extensively.
Most of his designs are inside Rome and include the isolated building in piazza Pollarola; the palazzo Pericoli in via di Monserrato; the palazzo Negroni, now palazzo Caffarelli in via de' Condotti, the Hotel Bristol in piazza Barberini, the park next to the
Palazzo Barberini; the restoration of the
Palazzo Venezia
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, the villa and studio of the Polish artist
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, the new Teatro Nazionale (1880–86, now demolished), the
Palazzo Pubblico of the Republic of San Marino, and various funeral chapels in the Campo Varano. He dedicated himself to designing for charitable institutions, including hospitals and asylums. His asylums for the mentally ill in Rome and
Siena were models for others. He designed the hospital of the
Fatebenefratelli
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(1867) in the
Isola Tiberina, the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Pietà (1862), and enlarged the Ospedale Maggiore and the orphanage.
He became professor and president of the
Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He was named Commissioner for the Edification of the Palazzo of Fine Arts in Rome, Municipal Consigliere, and member of the Commission ''Archeologica, Edilizia e degli Archivii''. He was named Knight of Order Piano and of San Gregorio Magno, Commander of the Order of Francesco Giuseppe, Knight of the
Order of the Crown of Italy
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, the Spanish Order of Isabel the Catholic, and the Order of San Marino.
''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 24-25.
References
External links
Entry in Treccani Encyclopedia
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1831 births
1901 deaths
19th-century Italian architects
Architects from Rome