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CAGNOLA, LUIGI, MARCHESE (1762-1833)

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CAGNOLA, See also:LUIGI, MARCHESE (1762-1833) , See also:Italian architect, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:June 1762 in See also:Milan. He was sent at the See also:age of fourteen to the Clementine See also:College at See also:Rome, and after-wards studied at the university of See also:Pavia. He was intended for the legal profession, but his See also:passion for See also:architecture was too strong, and after holding some See also: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 See also:account of the expense their See also:adoption would have involved. From that See also:time Cagnola devoted himself entirely to architecture. After the See also:death of his See also:father he spent two years in See also:Verona and See also:Venice, studying the architectural structures of these cities. In 1806 he was called upon to erect a triumphal See also:arch for the See also:marriage of See also:Eugene See also:Beauharnais with the princess of See also:Bavaria. The arch was of See also:wood, but was of such beauty that it was re-solved to carry it out in See also:marble. The result was the magnificent Arco della See also:Pace in Milan, surpassed in dimensions only by the Arc de 1'Etoile at See also:Paris. Among other See also:works executed by Cagnola are the Porta di See also:Marengo at Milan, the campanile at Urgnano, and the See also:chapel of See also:Santa Marcellina in Milan. He died on the 14th of See also:August 1833, five years before the completion of the Arco del Sempione, which he designed for his native See also:city.

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