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BONOMI, GIUSEPPI (1739-1808)

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BONOMI, GIUSEPPI (1739-1808) , See also:English architect, was See also:born at See also:Rome on the 19th of See also:January 1739. After attaining a considerable reputation in See also:Italy, he came in 1767 to See also:England, and finally settled in practice there. He was the See also:innocent cause of the retirement of See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds from the See also:presidency of the Royal See also:Academy. Sir Joshua wished him to become a full Academician, regarding him as a fitting occupant of the then vacant See also:chair of See also:perspective. But the See also:majority of the Academicians were opposed to this See also:suggestion, and Bonomi was elected an See also:associate only, and that merely by the See also:president's casting See also:vote. Bonomi was largely responsible for the revival of classical See also:architecture in England. His most famous See also:work was the See also:Italian See also:villa at Roseneath, See also:Dumbartonshire, designed for the See also:duke of See also:Argyll. In 1804 he was appointed honorary architect to St See also:Peter's at Rome. He died in See also:London on the 9th of See also:March 1808. His son, GIUSEPPI BONOMI (1796-1878), studied See also:art in London at the Royal Academy, and became a sculptor, but is best known as an illustrator of the leading Egyptological publications of his See also:day. From 1824 to 1832 he was in See also:Egypt, making drawings of the monuments in the See also:company of See also:Burton, See also:Lane and See also:Wilkinson. In 1833 he visited the See also:mosque of See also:Omar, returning with detailed drawings, and from 1842 to 1844 was again in Egypt,. attached to the Prussian See also:government exploration expedition under See also:Lepsius.

He assisted in the arrangement of the See also:

Egyptian See also:court at the Crystal See also:Palace in 1853, and in 1861 was appointed See also:curator of the See also:Soane Museum. He died on the 3rd of March 1878.

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