GIACOMO TAZZINI, ARCHITETTO DI TRE CORTI.

Giacomo Tazzini, architect of three courts. Life and work by a versatile architect-engineer in Milan, from Repubblica Cisalpina to Italian Unification. PhD thesis by Flavio Eusebio The name of Giacomo Tazzini often comes out in many documents of restoration of buildings in Milan, Monza and other Lombard sites. Nonetheless it hasn’t been never realized a specific research about his work. Tazzini doesn't represent only a stylistic and professional continuances with his master Luigi Canonica. In forty years he creates some extraordinary works, for the aesthetic and the technique, that have changed the face of Milan. The matrix of the aesthetic taste of the facades of his buildings is the Neoclassic one, but in the interiors it is possible to see a progressive evolution of the ornamental language. The works of Tazzini are very numerous if we consider not only court's assignments such as Royal Palace and the Scala Theatre, but even buildings and interiors for private commitment such as Spinola Palace. These assignments took place in Milan and in other Lombard cities. Sometime he used to design churches even if most of the time the architect that projected these sacred buildings was Tazzini's brother Giuseppe. The presence of Giuseppe has often determined confusion in attributions of altars or facades' projects. The quantity and quality of discovered drawings made by Tazzini show a very clever figure, great architect and engineer and interior designer, able to consider all the details from the door-handles to the chandeliers. Tazzini represents one of the final complete designer. He has not studied at the university but at Canonica's studio. Considering the hugeness of the documents discovered the research examines only the most important works in Milan, as defined in the subtitle.