Gaetano Matteo Pisoni
Gaetano Matteo Pisoni (* July 18, 1713 in Ascona, † March 4, 1782 in Locarno ) was a Swiss architect.
After a bricklayer in Breitenwang in Tyrol he settled 1735-1740 trained at the Academia di San Lucca in Rome and from 1740 to 1745 in Milan as an architect, worked from 1750 in Brussels, where he built, among other things, plans for the 1751-1759 Cathedral Saint- Aubin created in Namur, in 1753 and in Vienna in the service of Prince Joseph Wenzel I von Liechtenstein. From 1756 he traveled to Milan, Dresden and Rome, where he in 1760 by Pope Clement XIII. the title of Knight of the Golden Spur received.
In 1763 he came with his nephew Paolo Antonio Pisoni to Solothurn, where he took over the configuration of the Cathedral of St. Ursus. Other works from this period are Pisonis the town church in Delsberg and the orphanage of Zurich. Pisoni left Solothurn 1770 and returned to Ascona.
Works
Detail from the facade of the orphanage in Zurich
St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn
The interior of St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn
Church of St. Marcel in Delsberg
Church of St. Marcel in Delsberg
Paleis van hertog Brabant in Brussels
Cathedral Saint- Aubin in Namur
Cathedral Saint- Aubin in Namur
St. Janskerk in Liege