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Citizenship
  
Italian

Occupation
  
Architect


Known for
  
Architecture

Name
  
Giuseppe Boccini

Education
  
Royal Academy of Fine Arts

Died
  
December 31, 1900, Florence, Italy

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Giuseppe Boccini was an Italian architect.

He studied architecture in his native Florence, in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Emilio De Fabris, and then entered the studio of Mariano Falcini. He was knighted with the Order of the Crown of Italy, became professor of the Consiglio Accademico of Florence, Correspondent Associate of the Royal Accademia Raffaello of Urbino, and Honorary Associate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Urbino. He helped design some of the palaces facing the Piazza della Repubblica, Florence. His major works include:

  • Cassa di Risparmio in Imola (1879)
  • Gothic Funeral Chapel for Nicolaev (1881, Odessa, Russia), commissioned by Admiral General Niccolò Arcas
  • New Evangelical Cemetery of Florence, outside Porta Romana (Begun 1877)
  • Episcopal Church in Piazza del Carmine, Florence, 1881
  • Gothic Funeral Chapel for the Lodomez family
  • Cemetery of San Miniato al Monte, Florence (1876)
  • Gothic Funeral Chapel for Gattai-Budini Family (1881)
  • Villa (Quattrocento Style), near Città di Castello, for Baron Franchetti
  • Villa of Ernesto Rossi in Montughi (1887–88).
  • References

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