Francesco Azzurri (

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, 1831–1901) was an Italian architect. He was the nephew of the architect Giovanni Azzurri, a professor of architecture at the Academy of St. Luke in Rome.

Biography

Francesco studied Engineering and Architecture at the University of Rome, under San Bartolo and Sereni, afterward in the

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under his uncle. He traveled extensively. Most of his designs are inside Rome and include the isolated building in piazza Pollarola; the palazzo Pericoli in via di Monserrato; the palazzo Negroni, now palazzo Caffarelli in via de' Condotti, the Hotel Bristol in piazza Barberini, the park next to the

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; the restoration of the

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, the villa and studio of the Polish artist

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, the new Teatro Nazionale (1880–86, now demolished), the

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of the Republic of San Marino, and various funeral chapels in the Campo Varano. He dedicated himself to designing for charitable institutions, including hospitals and asylums. His asylums for the mentally ill in Rome and

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were models for others. He designed the hospital of the Fatebenefratelli (1867) in the

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, the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Pietà (1862), and enlarged the Ospedale Maggiore and the orphanage. He became professor and president of the

in Rome. He was named Commissioner for the Edification of the Palazzo of Fine Arts in Rome, Municipal Consigliere, and member of the Commission ''Archeologica, Edilizia e degli Archivii''. He was named Knight of Order Piano and of San Gregorio Magno, Commander of the Order of Francesco Giuseppe, Knight of the

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, the Spanish Order of Isabel the Catholic, and the

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. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 24-25.

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External links

Entry in Treccani Encyclopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Azzurri, Francesco 1831 births 1901 deaths 19th-century Italian architects Architects from Rome