부산대학교 도서관

(b Pistoia, Aug 18, 1758; d Florence, Oct 4, 1820). Italian architect and writer. He was a pupil of Gasparo Maria Paoletti at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and he then lived in Rome for two years. On returning to Florence (1787) he was commissioned to prepare the decorations in Piazza S Maria Novella for the wedding of Maria Teresa of Tuscany and Anton of Saxony (later king; reg 1827–36). For Giuseppe Puccini he remodelled (1800) the 18th-century Villa Scornio, Pistoia, in ‘Doric Egyptian’ style. It was conceived as a piece of introductory architecture, a sort of triumphal arch or gateway: an atrium or gallery passes through the whole building, connecting the square in front with the garden behind. In 1809 he published a treatise on skiagraphy, in which he sought to adapt the taste for cast shadows, popularized by French Neo-classical drawing, to architectural drawings. His major work, the pantheon of illustrious men (from ...