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