
Manfredo Manfredi (; 16 April 1859,
Piacenza – 13 October 1927, Piacenza) was an Italian architect.
In 1880, Manfredi began his studies at the
Accademia di belle arti di Roma (Academy of Fine Arts in Rome).
[ In 1884 he came in second in the architectural competition for the monument now known as the Altare della Patria to honour Victor Emmanuel. When the winning architect Giuseppe Sacconi died in 1905, Manfredi, Gaetano Koch and ]Pio Piacentini
Pio Piacentini (5 September 1846 – 4 April 1928) was an Italian architect, the father of Marcello Piacentini. He is best known for his Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
Life
He was born in Rome and trained in the Academy of St. Luke.
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were appointed to oversee the completion of the monument.[
Manfredi helped found the Scuola Superiore di Architettura in Rome and was its director from 1908 to 1920.][ He was also involved in politics and was an elected member of the Parliament of Italy between 1909 and 1919.][
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Notable projects
* Monument to the Independence of Brazil
The Monument to the Independence of Brazil ( pt, Monumento à Independência do Brasil) is a granite and bronze sculpture located in the Independence Park in São Paulo, Brazil. It is also known as the Ipiranga Monument ( pt, Monumento do Ipirang ...
in São Paulo (1922)
* Tomb of Victor Emmanuel in the Pantheon, Rome
The Pantheon (, ; la, Pantheum,Although the spelling ''Pantheon'' is standard in English, only ''Pantheum'' is found in classical Latin; see, for example, Pliny, '' Natural History'36.38 "Agrippas Pantheum decoravit Diogenes Atheniensis". Se ...
* Italian pavilions at universal expositions in Chicago (1893), Antwerp (1894), Paris (1900)
* Lighthouse monument on the Janiculum
References
1859 births
1927 deaths
19th-century Italian architects
Architects from Emilia-Romagna
Italian politicians
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