AZZURRI, FRANCESCO. - Architect, b. in Rome in 1827, d. there in 1901; president of the Academy of St. Luke, in his major works of civil architecture he reworks classical and traditional motifs, occupying a significant position in the architecture of the turn of the century, that is, when the neoclassical tradition was about to be interrupted. To him is owed, among other things, the restoration of S. Maria in Monticelli and the construction of the chapel of S. Lucia (1861) in the archconfraternity of the Gonfalone in Rome, the restoration of Palazzo Venezia and of the Cancelleria and the design of the railing of Palazzo Barberini. To A. belongs the merit of having built and enlarged many hospitals, according to criteria different from those used up to his day.

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BIBL.: R., s. v. in Thieme-Becker, II, p. 297; F. Azzurri, La chiesa di S. Maria in Monticelli e i suoi rittauri, Rome 1860; G. De Angelis d'Ossat, L'architettura in Roma negli ultimi tre decenni del sec. XIX, ibid. 1942, passim.

Maria Vittoria Brugnoli

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Azzurri, Francesco

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