Ferdinando Bonsignore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1760
Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Date of Death: 27-Jun-1843
Profession: architect
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Ferdinando Bonsignore
- Ferdinando Bonsignore (10 June 1760 in Turin – 27 June 1843 in Turin) was an Italian architect and designer.
- He was a student of the Accademia di Pittura e Scultura di Torino in 1782, and from 1783-1798 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 (1802–03) 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: Alessandria, modification of façade for city hall. Crescentino, façade for parish church. Florence, Hall of Palazzo Pitti, 1794–95; Design of a theater for a contest sponsored by the Academy of Florence, 1794. Naples, Church of San Francesco da Paola, never built. Porto Maurizio (Province of Imperia), Piazza 1809. Racconigi, Belvedere Tower and monument to the Battle of Trocadero in the park of Castello Reale, 1823. Romano Canavese, parish church never built.
- 1820. Strambino, parish church, Rosary Chapel. Vicoforte, Façade of Sanctuary 1825-1829 (along with work by Virginio Bordino).
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