Gaetano Matteo Pisoni belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Gaetano Matteo Pisoni as Swiss-Italian architect (1713-1782).
Gaetano Matteo Pisoni was born at Ascona in 1713. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is Church of Saint John the Evangelist. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Order of the Golden Spur.
That the work was built in Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Gaetano Matteo Pisoni died in 1782, aged 69. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Church of Saint John the Evangelist
- Order of the Golden Spur
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