Giovanni Antonio Antolini practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Giovanni Antonio Antolini as architect (1753-1841).
Giovanni Antonio Antolini was born at Castel Bolognese in 1753. His recorded nationality is Papal States.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, engineer and university teacher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Papal States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Giovanni Antonio Antolini died in 1841, aged 88. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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