Ferdinando Sanfelice is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Ferdinando Sanfelice as Italian late Baroque architect and painter (1675-1748).
Ferdinando Sanfelice was born at Naples in 1675. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect and painter.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Ferdinando Sanfelice died in 1748, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
