Zanobi del Rosso

Zanobi del Rosso (Florence, December 16th, 1724 - January 28th, 1798) is an Italian architect of the school florentine.

Raise Giovanni Filippo Ciocchi, it enters in 1749 to the Accademia del Disegno . It leaves then to Rome to follow the lesson of Luigi Vanvitelli and Ferdinando Fuga.

Biography

It is used especially to carry out spaces of svago (vague), as with the New Theater of Pisa (1770) and with the Casino of holiday for the Accademia dei Generosi (1771). With the Uffizi it rearranges the gallery and decorates the Room della Niobe.

With the Jardin of Boboli it creates the Casa del Caffè (also called Kaffeehaus) (1774-1777), perhaps the best example than style Rococo in Florence, influenced Turkish scenes orientalizing, then popular in the residences Vienneses of the Habsbourg. It redraws the zone of the garden, by changing the basins of the fountains, the provision of the plants, and created the Limonaia (Orangerie) (1777-1778).

It draws the plans of the Complesso di San Firenze, rare example of building baroque in the center of Florence.

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