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Cosimo Rossi Melocchi (10 August 1758 – 12 October 1820) was an Italian
Neoclassical architect Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...
and printmaker.


Biography

Born in
Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a t ...
, where he initially obtained some training in design under
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, he moved to Florence to study under
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at the
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, and then spent two years in Rome studying art and architecture. He returned to Florence where in 1787, he was commissioned by the Russian Tsar (via his Tuscan minister the Conte Mocenigo), to create the ephemeral celebratory machines to celebrate the marriage of
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, eldest daughter of then-Duke Peter Leopold of Tuscany, to Anthony, electoral prince of Saxony. In Pistoia, he worked on the restoration of the Teatro dei Risvegliati and designed in 1812 the original, ambitious designs for the Famedio or Pantheon of illustrious men, completed in reduced form by 1827. He was knighted into the Tuscan
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. He helped design the
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, near Pistoia. With the ascension of Cavaliere Puccini as director of the Florentine Gallery, Rossi Melocchi was named as vice-president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.Guida di Pistoia per gli amanti delle belle arti
by Francesco Tolomei, 1821, Pistoia, page 195-196.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rossi Melocchi, Cosimo 1758 births 1820 deaths People from Pistoia 18th-century Italian architects Italian neoclassical architects Architects from Tuscany