Sardinian-Piedmontese

Sassari, view of the cathedral dedicated to Saint Nicholas. Photo by Habibi Minelli Sam, from Sardegna DL

Some important long-running city factories mark the moment of Sardinia's transition from the Spanish royals to the Savoy rulers.

Sassari, facade of the cathedral of San Nicola. Photo by Marco Ceraglia, 2009, from Digital Resources Sardegna IDV

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The architectural factories of the Savoy age

In 1714, with the façade porch decorated by Lombard and Genoese sculptors, the late Baroque building interventions were completed in the Romanesque cathedral of San Nicola in Sassari, renovated in the Aragonese era, whic...

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Macomer, Church of S. Pantaleo Martyr. Photo by Antonio Abeltino, 1997, from Catalogo BBCC RAS

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Late Baroque architecture

The entire course of the 18th century was characterized by the activity of Piedmontese architects and military engineers, who accelerated sacred and civil construction in a baroque sense, especially in the most important...

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Ozieri, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photo by Antonio Abeltino, 1999, from Catalogo BBCC RAS

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Neoclassical architecture

The process of alignment with the dominant trends in the environments of Italian artistic culture intensified in the 19th century with the work of architects who were native to the island but trained in Turin, aware of t...

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Cagliari, Civil Hospital. Photos from Sardinia Aerial Photos - Orthophotos and Cartographic Data © Agea, All rights reserved

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Gaetano Cima

In the history of Sardinian architecture, the architect Gaetano Cima occupies an absolutely important place, as evidenced by the fact that he effectively played a teaching role in the second half of the nineteenth centur...

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Cagliari, view of the Castello district. Photo by Corrado Garau, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Civil and military architecture

Among the territorial planning interventions adopted by the Savoy government, there is also the founding of three cities from scratch, Carloforte and La Maddalena in the 18th century and Longon Sardo (later Santa Teresa...

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Palau, Capo d'Orso Fortress. Photo of Comune di Palau, 2007, from Sardegna DigitalLibrary

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Military engineers

The definitive passage of Sardinia to Savoy in 1718 does not mark an interruption of the factories in progress, marked by the adherence to the late Baroque language, destined to last until the end of the century in a ser...

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