In the history of building, Pier Francesco Silvani is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Pier Francesco Silvani as Italian architect.
Pier Francesco Silvani was born at Florence in 1620. 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.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Pier Francesco Silvani died in 1685, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
