Luigi de Cambray Digny

Luigi de Cambray Digny (1778 - 1843) is an Italian architect of the school florentine of French origin.

Biography

He was the most active architects during the French occupation and the Restauration.

Formed with the Academy of the drawing of Florence as Gaspare Paoletti raises, it is influenced more by French architecture, in particular that of the Néoclassicisme imposed by the Napoleonean era.

He teaches then with the Academy florentine and becomes member in the Art schools of the Institut of France under the title of count Louis Cambray-Digny and member of the Roman Académie of San Luca.

In 1803, it enters to the office of the Scrittoio delle Regie Fabbriche , which makes forget its past pro-French after his expulsion, then becomes director of the architectural factories granducales until its retirement in 1835. It carries out many work in the city, of construction, restoration or transformation.

Towards the end of its life, it was, on a purely honorary basis, Gonfalonier of Florence between 1841 and 1842.

Architectural works and work

  • the cenotaph of Dante Alighieri, with the basilica of Santa Croce (with the sculptures of Stefano Ricci, 1802),
  • the transformation of the ex-monastery Sant' Anna sul Prato into residential buildings (including the Palate Sonnino, 1808),
  • the enlarging and transformations of the convent Served di Maria close to the basilica della Santissima Annunziata (1810),
  • the district of Campo di Marte (Champ de Mars) (1812),
  • the improvements of the Palazzo Orlandini del Beccuto ,
  • the rebuilding enters the Bridge Santa Trinita and the Lungarno Acciauili with the demolition of the Arc of Pizzicotti,
  • reorganizations of the Oricellari gardens,
  • work with the Garden Torrigiani (1813).
  • the body of Guard of Door went Croce,
  • the military districts in the Forteresse of Basso (1813-14),
  • the Vault of the Forte View-point
  • a building in the Corso dei Tintori (1814).
  • restoration of the old delle prison of Carcere Stinche ,
  • work with the Casino Mediceo di San Marco
  • customs close to the Uffizi (1815)
  • plans of the Customs of Filigare (1815-18), emblem of the architecture of Lorraine on the road which arrived of the north of Italy
  • the Casino of Montili, meadows of the Villa di Pratolino
  • plans of the garden of the Villa Puccini in Scornio, meadows of Pistoia,
  • the royal cabin in Prato of Florence (1820), where the Large-duke and his court attended Corsa dei Barberi.
  • the realization of the Church of Montecatini, demolished in the years 1860 (between 1822 and 1827),
  • enlargings of Calzaiuoli (1826-1840)
  • prolongations of Sant' Anne and San Leopoldo.
  • work in Pubblico Macello (1827)
  • plans of the Metastasio theater of 1827 to 1830
  • plans for a new hospital in Leghorn (noncarried out),
  • the Place of Casone (1828, now Cavour Place)
  • the new District of San Leopoldo, with the church of the Saints Pietro and Paolo (1828-35).
  • the church Santa Croce of Strike in Chianti in 1833, on the site of an old oratory.

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