Luigi Cagnola

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Statue of Luigi Cagnola at the Palazzo di Brera , Milan, by Benedetto Cacciatori (1849)

Marchese Luigi Cagnola (born June 9, 1762 in Milan , † August 14, 1833 in Inverigo ) was an Italian architect .

Arco della Pace, Milan

Cagnola attended the Clementine College in Rome and the University of Pavia . He was actually intended for the legal profession and initially worked for the Austrian administration in Milan, but ultimately decided on architecture. His project for the Porta orientale (later Porta Venezia ) in Milan was praised, but not realized for reasons of cost. Cagnola's provisional wooden triumphal arch for the wedding of Eugène Beauharnais to Princess Auguste Amalia of Bavaria in 1806 was so popular that it was decided to have it in marbleexecute. The result is today's Arco della Pace . The Outer Burgtor in Vienna was also built by Peter Nobile from 1821–1824 according to plans by Luigi Cagnola by soldiers of the Austrian army. Cagnola also designed the Milan Porta Ticinese , called Porta di Marengo in Napoleonic times , and the Campanile of Urgnano .

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