Giuseppe Piermarini

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Giuseppe Piermarini
Giuseppe Piermarini, portrait by Martin Knoller
Born	(1734-07-18)18 July 1734 Foligno, Papal States
Died	18 February 1808(1808-02-18) (aged 73) Foligno, Papal States
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Architect
Buildings	Teatro alla Scala Royal Villa of Monza Palazzo Belgioioso House Palazzo Greppi

Giuseppe Piermarini (Italian pronunciation:

With the Habsburg decision permanently to install an archduke at Milan, Piermarini was commissioned to reconstruct the ducal palace adjoining the cathedral as an appropriate city residence and to construct a wholly new country seat near Monza.

For the Royal Palace of Milan, Piermarini successfully avoided competition with the rich Gothic front of the cathedral with his sober neoclassical façade (1773–80) and created the Piazzetta Reale, as part of his urbanistic projects in the city centre. For the Royal Villa of Monza, (1776 onwards), successive changes adapted the original pleasure villa to a seat of court. In 1779 Piermarini was officially named architect of the Imperial Kingdom, a position he had occupied in fact for several years.

Over the years successive internal reconstructions have altered the interior of the

Piermarini's lesser works in Milan include the Palazzo Greppi (1772–78), the

In 1798 he returned to his native Foligno, where he effected some changes in the Duomo and prepared a project for the Cappella del Sacramento in the church of San Lorenzo at Spello. Among his pupils was Giacomo Albertolli, the nephew of Piermarini's collaborator in stucco decoration of palaces, Giocondo Albertolli. Giacomo succeeded him as professor of architecture in the Brera Academy.^[3] He died in Foligno in 1808.

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• Ambrogio Annoni, "PIERMARINI, Giuseppe", Biography from the
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