Andrea Giganti
Andrea Giganti (1731 - 1787) is a sicilian Architecte having contributed to the movement of the sicilian Baroque. Born with Trapani in 1731, the Andrea young person studies the Architecture near Giovanni Biago Amicon. Towards 1751, Giganti entered under the protection of Giuseppe Stella, bishop of Mazara del Vallo, with which it went to Palermo. Over there, it integrated the seminar and was ordered priest.
Thereafter, it entered to the hearth of a sicilian aristocrat, the prince of Scordia, where it seems to have carried on the two activities of confessor and architect, working on the various houses had by the Scordia family.
Among the other sicilian buildings designed by Giganti, one counts the Villa Galetti of Bagheria, the Villa Ventimiglia of Mezzo-Monreale, the church San Paolo dei Giardinieri , as well as the platform and the furnace bridge of the church San Salvitore of Palermo.
Experienced engineer, Giganti also carried out some Pont S. Towards the end of his life, because of the change of mode, it started to give up the Baroque to adopt a neo-classic style simpler.
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