Cesare Leonardi
{{Short description|Italian architect (1935–2021)}}
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| birth_date = 3 June 1935
| birth_place = Modena, Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|02|04|1935|06|03}}
| death_place = Modena, Italy
| nationality = Italian
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Cesare Leonardi (3 June 1935 – 4 February 2021) was an Italian architect.
Biography
Leonardi attended the University of Florence, where he was taught by Adalberto Libera, Ludovico Quaroni, and Leonardo Savioli. He graduated in 1970.{{cite web|url=http://www.archivioleonardi.it/it/cesare-leonardi/|title=Cesare Leonardi|work=Associazione Culturale|language=Italian|access-date=6 February 2021|archive-date=29 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829161404/http://www.archivioleonardi.it/it/cesare-leonardi/|url-status=dead}} From 1959 to 1960, he was an apprentice in the studio of {{ill|Marcello D'Olivo|it}} in Udine before opening his own studio with Franca Stagi in 1963. Some of their works ended up in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/3877|title=Cesare Leonardi, Franca Stagi - Dondolo Rocking Chair|work=Museum of Modern Art}} Photography allowed him to document, investigate, and plan his future blueprints for construction. He moved to the Viale Emilio Po studio in Modena in 1990, which now houses his complete archives.{{cite web|url=http://www.domusweb.it/it/notizie/2011/06/09/archivio-cesare-leonardi.html|title=Archivio Cesare Leonardi|date=2004|work=Domus|language=Italian|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214070113/http://www.domusweb.it/it/notizie/2011/06/09/archivio-cesare-leonardi.html|archivedate=14 December 2013}} After 2000, he primarily devoted himself to photography, sculpture, and painting. In 2011, the Superintendent for Archival Heritage in Emilia-Romagna said that his archive was a "particularly important cultural asset".{{cite web|url=http://www.sa-ero.archivi.beniculturali.it/dichiarati/index.php?page=Visualizza&carteggio=310|title=Leonardi, Cesare|date=17 November 2014|work=Soprintendenza archivista per l'Emilia-Romagna|language=Italian}}
Cesare Leonardi died in Modena on 4 February 2021, at the age of 85, from a long illness complicated by COVID-19.{{cite web|url=https://www.modenatoday.it/attualita/morto-aschitetto-cesare-leonardi.html|title=Lutto a Modena, morto ad 85 anni l'architetto Cesare Leonardi|date=4 February 2021|work=Modena Today|language=Italian}}{{cite web | url=https://www.lastampa.it/casa-design/2021/02/06/news/addio-a-cesare-leonardi-le-sue-creazioni-hanno-conquistato-il-moma-1.39865263/ | title=Addio a Cesare Leonardi, le sue creazioni hanno conquistato il MoMa | date=5 February 2021 }}
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Category:University of Florence alumni
Category:20th-century Italian architects
Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Emilia-Romagna
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