Enrico Alvino Portrait Italian architect and urban designer
Enrico Alvino (1809–1872) was an Italian architect and urban designer , particularly active in Naples in the mid-19th century. He was born in Milan , and died in Rome.
Works Among his important works in Naples are:
façade of the church of Santa Maria di Piedigrotta (1853); laid out (with others) the street, Corso Maria Teresa, today named Corso Vittorio Emanuele (between 1852 and 1860), finished in 1870; planned the restoration of the façade of the Cathedral of Naples , completed in 1870; redesigned the Santa Lucia quarter in 1862; redesigned (with others) the Villa Comunale ; converted the ancient convent of San Giovanni a Costantinopoli into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts ; In Catania, he helped complete the Palazzo Paternò del Toscano in Piazza Stesicoro .
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