Giacomo Quarenghi made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Giacomo Quarenghi as Italian architect in Russia (1744-1817).
Giacomo Quarenghi was born at Rota d'Imagna in 1744. His recorded nationality is the Republic of Venice.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
Giacomo Quarenghi is described as architect and painter.
Among his principal works are Smolny Institute, Alexander Palace and Hermitage Theatre. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Working from the Republic of Venice shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1817, at 73. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: Smolny Institute
- Notable work: Alexander Palace
- Notable work: Hermitage Theatre
- Worked as architect and painter
