Luigi Canina
Luigi Canina (
1795 –
1856) was an
Italian archaeologist and
architect.
Luigi Canina, Italian architect and archeologist, was born in
Casale Monferrato in 1795 and died in
Florence in 1856. He was a pupil of
F. Bonsignore in
Turin, and settled in
Rome in 1818. Among his works are: some construction at
Villa Borghese (monumental entrance from Piazzale Flaminio); Casino Vagnuzzi outside of Porta del Popolo in Egyptian style; not realized projects for reconstruction of the Sanctuary of Oropa (1856).
He became professor of architecture at
Turin, and his most important works were the excavation of
Tusculum in
1829 and of the
Appian Way in
1848, the results of which he embodied in a number of works published in a costly form by his patroness, the
queen of Sardinia. Canina is also noted for his studies of history and archeology:
Ancient architecture described and represented in documents (1830-44).
* Sistri, Augusto, ed.
Luigi Canina, 1795 - 1856: Architetto e Teorico del Classicismo. Milan, 1995.
