Pio Piacentini (15 September 1846 – 6 April 1928) was an Italian architect and the father of Marcello Piacentini. His works include the Palazzo delle Esposizioni (1883), the Rinascente palace (1920), the monumental entrance to Villa Sciarra, and Palazzo Piacentini (finished after his death, in 1932). He also directed the construction works of the Vittoriano since 1905, together with Manfredo Manfredi and Gaetano Koch.
Pio Piacentini (15 September 1846 – 6 April 1928) was an Italian architect and the father of Marcello Piacentini. His works include the Palazzo delle Esposizioni (1883), the Rinascente palace (1920), the monumental entrance to Villa Sciarra, and Palazzo Piacentini (finished after his death, in 1932). He also directed the construction works of the Vittoriano since 1905, together with Manfredo Manfredi and Gaetano Koch.
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Life Pio Piacentini was born in Rome on 15 September 1846. He received his architectural training at the Accademia di San Luca, graduating in 1867; afterwards he practised in Virginio Vespignani’s office in Rome. His unusual and highly eclectic work, influenced by Renaissance Revival architecture and by the innovative work of his French contemporary Charles Garnier, was evident in his first major design, for the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on the Via Nazionale in Rome. In January 1878, Piacentini won the second competition for the Palazzo, the first competition having failed to specify the building’s exact location and the proposed budget. The success of his plan, which bore the motto ‘Sit quod vis simplex et unum’, meant that at the age of 33 Piacentini had already obtained the commission for an important building, the function and location of which, next to the church of San Vitale, earned him considerable fame and prestige. Preceded by a sweeping flight of steps, the façade of the Palazzo is characterized by the great space of the Serlian entrance archway, which, rather than accentuating its role as a triumphal entrance, seems to introduce a dramatic pause in the compact mass that stands behind it. Conscious of…
