Benedetto Alfieri is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Benedetto Alfieri as Italian architect (1699-1767).
Benedetto Alfieri was born at Rome in 1700. His recorded nationality is Duchy of Savoy.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, politician and master builder.
Among his best-known works are Palazzo Ghilini, Palazzo Alfieri (Asti) and church of St. John the Baptist and St. Remigius. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Duchy of Savoy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Benedetto Alfieri died in 1767, aged 67. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Palazzo Ghilini
- Notable work: Palazzo Alfieri (Asti)
- Notable work: church of St. John the Baptist and St. Remigius
- Notable work: Vercelli Cathedral
