Luigi Canonica
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(Cristoforo Maria) Luigi Canonica (Tesserete, Canton Ticino, 9 March 1762 – Milan, 7 February 1844) was a Swiss architect and urban planner whose prominent career as an exponent of neoclassicismAmong other major Italian neoclassical architects were the Romans Giuseppe Valadier and Luigi Canina and the Lombard Giuseppe Piermarini. was spent largely in Milan and Lombardy. He was the designated architect of the short-lived Repubblica Cisalpina, 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.
Designs
- {{ill|Teatro dei Filodrammatici (Milan)|lt=Teatro dei Filodrammatici|it|Teatro dei Filodrammatici (Milano)}} in Milan
- Teatro ReWilson, William Rae (1837). [https://books.google.com/books?id=7kgEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA226 Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home], p. 226. Longman{{in lang|it}} in Milan
- The greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the University of Pavia, 1815.{{cite web |title=Le collezioni e le serre |url=https://ortobotanico.unipv.eu/le-collezioni-e-le-serre/ |access-date=21 August 2022 |work=Orto Botanico Unipv}}
- Villa Nava Rusconi, Monticello Brianza
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Category:Architects from Ticino
Category:Swiss people of Italian descent
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