Francesco Maria Richini is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Francesco Maria Richini as Italian architect (1584-1658).
Francesco Maria Richini was born at Milan in 1584. His recorded nationality is Duchy of Milan.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect and sculptor.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Duchy of Milan shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Francesco Maria Richini died in 1658, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
