CAGNOLA, LUIGI, MARCHESE (1762-1833)

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CAGNOLA, LUIGI, MARCHESE (1762-1833) , Italian architect, was born on the 9th of June 1762 in

Milan

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. He was sent at the age of fourteen to the Clementine College at Rome, and after-wards studied at the university of Pavia. He was intended for the legal profession, but his passion for architecture was too strong, and after holding some government posts at

Milan

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, he entered as a competitor for the construction of the Porta Orientale. His designs were commended, but were not selected on account of the expense their adoption would have involved. From that time Cagnola devoted himself entirely to architecture. After the death of his father he spent two years in Verona and Venice, studying the architectural structures of these cities. In 1806 he was called upon to erect a triumphal arch for the

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, but was of such beauty that it was re-solved to carry it out in marble. The result was the magnificent Arco della Pace in Milan, surpassed in dimensions only by the Arc de 1'Etoile at Paris. Among other works executed by Cagnola are the Porta di Marengo at Milan, the campanile at Urgnano, and the chapel of Santa Marcellina in Milan. He died on the 14th of August 1833, five years before the completion of the Arco del Sempione, which he designed for his native city.

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