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(Cristoforo Maria) Luigi Canonica (
''Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home''
p. 226. Longman and the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the University of Pavia, 1815.
File:Luigi Canonica's portrait.jpg, Luigi Canonica depicted in a portrait by Andrea Appiani
(Cristoforo Maria) Luigi Canonica (Tesserete Tesserete is a village and former municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.
In 1976 the neighboring municipality Campestro was incorporated into Tesserete.
In 2001 Tesserete municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipal ...
, Canton Ticino, 9 March 1762 – Milan, 7 February 1844) was a Swiss architect and urban planner whose prominent career as an exponent of neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was ...
was spent largely in Milan and Lombardy
Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...
. He was the designated architect of the short-lived Repubblica Cisalpina
The Cisalpine Republic ( it, Repubblica Cisalpina) was a sister republic of French First Republic, France in Northern Italy that existed from 1797 to 1799, with a second version until 1802.
Creation
After the Battle of Lodi in May 1796, Napoleo ...
, and, following the fall of the Napoleonic empire, of the kings of Sardinia. In Milan he was assigned to modify Giovanni Antonio Antolini's ambitious project for the Foro Buonaparte and the Arena. He also designed two theatres in Milan, the and the Teatro Re
The Teatro Re was a theatre in Milan, located near the Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Piazza del Duomo and named for its proprietor, Carlo Re. It functioned as both a prose theatre and an opera house and saw the world premieres of numerous operas, includ ...
Wilson, William Rae (1837)''Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home''
p. 226. Longman and the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the University of Pavia, 1815.
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Architects from Ticino Swiss people of Italian descent 1844 deaths 1762 births {{Switzerland-architect-stub