Luigi Canonica

(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 neoclassicism^[1] 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.

Bust of Canonica at the Palazzo Brera, Milan

Designs

• Teatro dei Filodrammatici [it] in Milan
• Teatro Re^[2] in Milan
• The greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the University of Pavia, 1815.^[3]
• Villa Nava Rusconi, Monticello Brianza

Gallery

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  Luigi Canonica depicted in a portrait by Andrea Appiani

Notes

1. Among other major Italian neoclassical architects were the Romans Giuseppe Valadier and Luigi Canina and the Lombard Giuseppe Piermarini.
2. Wilson, William Rae (1837). Notes abroad and rhapsodies at home, p. 226. Longman(in Italian)
3. "Le collezioni e le serre". Orto Botanico Unipv. Retrieved 21 August 2022.