Ferdinando Bonsignore


Ferdinando Bonsignore was an Italian architect and designer.
image:19TorinoGranMadreDio.JPG|thumb|250px|Façade of Gran Madre di Dio, Turin.

Biography

He was a student of the Accademia di Pittura e Scultura di Torino in 1782, and from 1783 to 1798 he was given a scholarship to Rome by the King of Sardinia. In Rome he worked with Nicola Giansimoni, a neoclassic architect. In 1798, he returned to Turin and was nominated architect and designer to the court. He became professor of architecture in the Ecole spéciale d’architecture dell’Académie des Sciences, Littérature et Beaux Arts and at the university in 1805. In 1813 he received a gold medal for his design of a Monument to Napoleon on the Moncenisio. He kept his university position after the restoration, as well as numerous other awards and appointments. He helped design the church of Gran Madre di Dio in Turin. One of his pupils was Luigi Canina
Among his designs that were never realized were for an armory in Turin, a Palazzo dei Conservatori, an octagonal temple dedicated to the marquis Niccolò Puccini, and an Egyptian-style tomb for Michelangelo. Among his works by city are:

Works in Turin