Luigi Cagnola

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Marchese Luigi Cagnola (9 June 1762 – 14 August 1833) was a Neoclassical Italian architect
.

Biography

Monumental Cemetery of Milan
, Italy

Cagnola was born in

Clementine College at Rome, and afterwards studied at the University of Pavia. He was intended for the legal profession, but his passion for architecture was too strong, and after holding some government posts at Milan, he entered as a competitor for the construction of the Porta Orientale
. His designs were commended, but were not selected on account of the expense their adoption would have involved.

From that time Cagnola devoted himself entirely to architecture. After the death of his father he spent two years in

Arco della Pace ("Arch of Peace") at Porta Sempione in Milan, surpassed in dimensions only by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Among other works executed by Cagnola are the Porta Ticinese and the chapel of Santa Marcellina in Milan, and the church tower in Urgnano
.

A statue of Luigi Cagnola at Palazzo Brera in Milan

He died in Inverigo in 1833, five years before the Arco della Pace was completed. Outside of the town of Inverigo, he built a villa for himself, named Villa La Rotonda, completed by one of his pupils, Francesco Peverelli.

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cagnola, Luigi, Marchese". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.