Domenico Gilardi

Domenico Gilardi (sometimes Domenico Giliardi; * July 7, 1785 in Montagnola, today Collina d' Oro, † February 26, 1845 in Milan ) was a Swiss architect of neoclassicism in Moscow.

Life

Gilardi was the son of the architect Giovanni Battista Gilardi. Gilardi 1796 went with his mother to Moscow, where his father was working as a government architect for several years. Between 1799 and 1802 studied Gilardi in St. Petersburg Art, 1802-1806 painting and then architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Between 1807 and 1810 undertook Gilardi numerous study trips to Rome, Florence and Venice, before moving to Moscow his father's assistant in 1811.

1817 took over Gilardi his father's office, when he returned to Switzerland. As an important representative of Russian late classicism Gilardi was after the fire of 1812 in Moscow significantly to redesign Moscow. 1832 Gilardi returned for health reasons back to Switzerland, where he worked only in the design and construction of the chapel of San Pietro in Gentilino before he died in Milan in 1845.

Building

Honors

Gilardi was honored with the Order of St. Vladimir (1819 ) and the Russian Order of St. Anne (1824 and 1826).