A name preserved in architecture
Little biographical information about Giacomo Tazzini is provided here, but his connection with Como is tangible. He is remembered as the designer of Villa Geno’s grand reconstruction.
Architecture
Giacomo Tazzini
Giacomo Tazzini gave Villa Geno in Como its grand neoclassical form through a major nineteenth-century reconstruction.
Giacomo Tazzini was the designer behind the grand neoclassical reconstruction of Villa Geno in Como. Undertaken for the Cornaggia family in the mid-nineteenth century, the project linked his name to one of the city’s villas. His trace in Como survives through the building and its architectural character.
Worth knowing
A neoclassical transformation
Tazzini designed Villa Geno’s reconstruction in the mid-nineteenth century. The project gave the villa a grand neoclassical identity.
Villa Geno
Villa Geno is the Como landmark directly associated with Tazzini. As you encounter the villa, you are seeing the result of the reconstruction he designed for the Cornaggia family.
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
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Villa Geno
Tazzini designed the villa’s grand neoclassical reconstruction for the Cornaggia family in the mid-nineteenth century.
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