Paolo Amato belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Paolo Amato as Italian architect.
Paolo Amato was born at Ciminna in 1634. 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 architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Paolo Amato died in 1714, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
