Giacomo Zanetti born probably in Lugano

Lugano

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, was an Italian master builder

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 and architect

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 active in Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato, population 36,058, is a town and comune in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the...

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He was responsible for some of the most interesting baroque

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 buildings constructed in the town during the years following the House of Savoy

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’s 1708 acquisition of the Duchy of Montferrat

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 from the Gonzaga

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s and the incorporation of the former capital into the state of Piedmont-Sardinia

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. He completed the two most successful buildings of Giovanni Battista Scapitta, following the architect’s death in 1715: Palazzo Gozzani di Treville (in Via Mameli; designed in 1711) and the rebuilding of the convent church of Santa Caterina (consecrated in 1726). He also worked on the Palazzi Sannazzaro (Via Mameli), Magnocavalli (Via Mameli), Ardizzone (Via Palestro) and Palazzo Grisella di Rosignano (Via Garibaldi).

Giacomo Zanetti died at Casale presumably in 1735.