Domenico Trezzini made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Domenico Trezzini as Swiss architect.
Domenico Trezzini was born at Astano in 1670. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
The seventeenth century built the machinery of public intellectual life - societies, journals, correspondence networks - and reputations could be made at a distance.
He worked as architect.
His principal work is Peter and Paul Cathedral. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
Working from Switzerland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Domenico Trezzini died in 1734, aged 64. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Worked as architect
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