Francesco Milizia practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Francesco Milizia as Italian art historian and architect.
Francesco Milizia was born at Oria in 1725. 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 art historian and architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Francesco Milizia died in 1798, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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