Gian Antonio Selva was an Italian neoclassical

Neoclassical architecture

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 architect

Architect

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Biography

He was born in Venice

Venice

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. His works include Villa Manfrin detta Margherita a Sant'Artemio, near Treviso

Treviso

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 (c. 1790), the original Teatro La Fenice (designed in 1898 and destroyed in 1996), the Teatro Nuovo of Trieste

Trieste

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 (1798), Teatro de La Sena of Feltre

Feltre

Feltre is a town and comune of the province of Belluno in Veneto, northern Italy. A hill town in the southern reaches of the province, it is located on the Stizzon River, about 4 km from its junction with the Piave, and 20 km southwest from Belluno...

, cathedral of Cologna Veneta

Cologna Veneta

Cologna Veneta is a comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 70 km west of Venice and about 35 km southeast of Verona...

(1807-10) and the church of San Maurizio in Venice (1806).

He died in Venice in 1819.