Giuseppe Valadier
Giuseppe Valadier | |
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Pietro Labruzzi, Portrait of the Architect Giuseppe Valadier, Art Institute of Chicago | |
| Born | 14 April 1762 |
| Died | 1 February 1839 (aged 76) |
| Resting place | San Luigi dei Francesi |
| Nationality | Italian |
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| Movement | Neoclassicism |
| Spouse |
Laura Campana (m. 1790) |
Giuseppe Valadier (April 14, 1762 – February 1, 1839) was an Italian architect and designer, urban planner and archaeologist and a chief exponent of Neoclassicism in Italy.
A teacher of architecture at the Accademia di San Luca, Valadier was a pioneer archeologist and a restorer of monuments, such as the Milvian Bridge (1805) and the Arch of Titus in Rome, (1819–21). He retraced the ancient line of the Via Flaminia (1805) and restored Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola's neglected Church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, which influenced his own Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Fiumicino, the newly-established port for Rome.