Gaetano Cima (1805 in

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– 1878 in Cagliari) was an Italian architect, exponent of the neoclassical movement.

Biography

Gaetano Cima was born in Cagliari,

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by an upper-middle-class family. Gaetano Cima died in Cagliari in 1878. There is only one known photograph of Gaetano Cima alive. (Collection Pisu).

Education

He studied architecture in

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, and later in

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at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, where he had as professors Luigi Canina and Luigi Poletti, famous Italian neoclassical architects. He came back to Sardinia when he completed his studies, working as civil engineer in the Cadastre Office in Cagliari.

Architectural Works In Sardinia

He later assumed a professorship at the local

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, while conducting projects in association with former classmate and then colleague architect Carlo De Candia; together they beatified the waterfront of Cagliari with buildings presenting lushes balconies and patios, with views to the ocean at the best Ligurian style.

Image gallery

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Bibliography

* Salvatore Naitza. ''Architettura dal tardo '600 al classicismo purista''. Cagliari, Ilisso, 1992. 1805 births 1878 deaths 19th-century Italian architects Architects from Sardinia People from Cagliari Academic staff of the University of Cagliari {{Italy-architect-stub