Autore
Ventra, Stefania

Titolo
Da scalpellino a imprenditore: Nicola Pirovano da Viganò. Tracce per la carriera di un artigiano a Milano al tempo di Luigi Cagnola
Periodico
Ricerche di storia dell'arte
Anno: 2023 - Volume: 140 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 13 - Pagina finale: 23

Thanks to his mastery, technical skills combined with an uncommon entrepreneurial spirit, Nicola Pirovano became the trusted supplier of architect Luigi Cagnola, personally participating in the construction of his major sites. By wisely accompanying the entire supply chain of stones, as well as developing a method of processing the Baveno granite, and thus contributing to the spread of the use of this stone in architecture, Pirovano took on a leading role in the chronicles for two extraordinary enterprises and represents a model case of the importance of technical and material advances in the early nineteenth century in Milan and of the social rise to which a craftsman could aspire



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