Gian Antonio Selva (2 September 1751 - 22 January 1819) was an Italian neoclassical

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Biography

He was born in

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, the son of scientist Lorenzo Selva. He studied architecture in Venice, and was a pupil of the architect Tommaso Temanza and the painter Pietro Antonio Novelli. Selva visited

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, where he met Antonio Canova and traveled with him to Naples. He also visited

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and the

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(1778-1781).Dizionario biografico universale contente le notizie più importanti sulla vita e sulle opere degli uomini celebri ; i nomi di regie e di illustri famiglie ; di scismi religiosi ; di parti civili ; di sette filosofiche dall'origine del mondo fino a' di nostri
Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 19. His works include the renovation of Palazzo Dolfin Manin for doge

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, the Villa Manfrin detta Margherita a Sant'Artemio, near

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(c. 1790), the original

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(designed in 1798 and destroyed by fire in 1996), renovation of Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana (1784), the Teatro Nuovo of

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(1798), Teatro de La Sena of Feltre, cathedral of

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(1807–10) and the church of San Maurizio in Venice (1806). He wrote a description of works in Venice, and translated works from Perrault and Chambers from French and English respectively. He died suddenly in Venice in 1819.

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