Antonio Corazzi

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Antonio Corazzi (born December 17, 1792 in Livorno , † April 26, 1877 in Florence ) was an Italian-Polish architect of classicism .

In 1811 he entered the Regia Accademia delle Belle Arti del Disegno in Florence, where he studied architecture with a scholarship from his native city. With Giuseppe Del Rosso , the architecture lecturer at the Accademia, he was involved in the planning for the Arena Goldoni in Florence, which was inaugurated in spring 1818. That year, on the advice of Stanisław Staszic , he was invited to Congress Poland , where he worked for 27 years and especially influenced the cityscape of Warsaw . In his works he was inspired by the Warsaw classicism of the epoch of Stanislaus II August .

His construction activity in Poland (1819–1847) can be divided into two sections. The years before the November Uprising of 1830 can be assigned to the epoch of the ripe Warsaw Neoclassical, while the years from 1830 onwards are characterized by the architecture of the Romantic era. Corazzi is particularly characterized by the former epoch, during which he created Drucki-Lubecki under the patronage of Franciszek Ksawery . He was also influenced by the impressions of a trip that took him to Berlin , Dresden , Munich , Milan , Florence , Bologna and Venice in 1826 . Since Corazzi was a supporter of the national movement, he was increasingly excluded from important tasks and his responsibility for public construction tasks, with a reduction in his annual salary, was limited to the school district of Warsaw.

Corazzi has realized over 50 of his own projects in Poland, 45 of which are in Warsaw alone, as well as some urban projects such as the design of the Theaterplatz and Bankenplatz squares and the Koszyki Cemetery. He knew how to combine the Tuscan and Polish architectural tradition. His main work is the Great Theater in Warsaw , the largest of its time in the world.

In 1846 he left Poland and moved to Florence, but had to contend with economic difficulties, as the small pension the Polish government had granted him was not sufficient for the growing family, and Corazzi was unable to stand up to the numerous as an architect To enforce competition, especially since he lacked the necessary relations with the political class of Tuscany because of his long absence in Poland.

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SURNAME Corazzi, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corazzi, Giuseppe Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Polish architect of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1877
Place of death Florence