Benedetto Alfieri
Benedetto Innocenzo Alfieri (8 June 1699 - 9 December 1767) was an Italian architect, a representative of the late-Baroque or Rococo style.
Biography and works
Born in
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, who commissioned him with the design of the Royal Theater of Turin;[2]
the theatre (which was probably his masterwork) burned down in 1936 and reopened in 1973.
He also completed the
The King made him Count of Sostegno.He collaborated during his long career with artists such as Luigi Acquisti, Giovanni Battista Borra, and Emilio Usiglio among many. He died in Turin.
References
- ^ ISBN 0-14-051323-X.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.
- Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione.. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. p. 15.
Gallery
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Belltower Novara -
Belltower Novara -
Palazzo Sormani in Milan -
Main altar by Alfieri in Sacro Monte di Varallo -
Santa Anna, Asti -
Duomo of Carignano (1756–1766) -
Interior of Teatro Regio, painted by Pietro Domenico Oliviero -
The Neoclassical façade of Saint Pierre Cathedral, Geneva (1752–56)
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