Giacomo Zanetti (c. 1696–1735), born probably in Lugano, was an Italian master-builder and architect active in Casale Monferrato. Lugano ( Latin language: Luganum) is a town (52993 inhabitants a total of 130000 people in the agglomeration in the south of Switzerland, in the An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction Casale Monferrato is a town in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the Province of Alessandria.
He was responsible for some of the most interesting baroque buildings constructed in the town during the years following the House of Savoy’s 1708 acquisition of the Duchy of Montferrat from the Gonzagas and the incorporation of the former capital into the state of Piedmont-Sardinia. Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical The House of Savoy (Casa Savoia was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region The Duchy of Montferrat was created out of what was left of the March of Montferrat after the last Palaeologus heir had died ( 1533) and the margraviate The Gonzaga family ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708. Kingdom of Sardinia, also known as Piedmont-Sardinia or Sardinia-Piedmont, was the name given to the possessions of the House of Savoy in 1720 when the He completed the two most successful buildings of Giovanni Battista Scapitta, following the architect’s death in 1715: Palazzo Gozzani di Treville (in Via Mameli; designed in 1711) and the rebuilding of the convent church of Santa Caterina (consecrated in 1726). He also worked on the Palazzi Sannazzaro (Via Mameli), Magnocavalli (Via Mameli), Ardizzone (Via Palestro) and Palazzo Grisella di Rosignano (Via Garibaldi). For other meanings (eg the word's use in place names see Palazzo (disambiguation.
Giacomo Zanetti died at Casale in 1735.
References
- Le Vie del Sacro - Casalese (Italian). Provincia di Alesandria.
- Solarino, Carla. L’opera di Giovanni Battista Scapitta (Italian).