Lisbona 1839 - Genoa 1915

Painter, Architect, Archaeologist.

Of Italian portuguese but naturalizzato origin, he studied to the linguistica Academy of Genoa. Known the Fontanesi he dedicated himself to the landscape painting that remained, end towards 1871, its domimante passion.

It always was fascinated from the panoramas of the Canavese and the Valley of Aosta, in communion of ideas and job with the painters of " the school of Rivara " Risalgono to the period between 1865 and 1870 its better burlaps.

At the same time it felt to be born, davanti.al the show of the feudali rests of the piemontesi valleys, the first archaeological curiosities Iniziò its career of architect restoring the castles of Rivara in the Canavese and Tagliolo Intorno to 1868 matured in he the interest for the life and the custom and the architecture of the feudale and cavalleresco Middle Ages.

True pioneer in the field of the protection of the artistic patrimony (interpreted clearly in a nineteenth-century optical) took care itself moreover of the restorations of the Rocca di Verres, of the Festival of S.Michele in Val di Susa, of the Priorato di S.Orso to Aosta, of the castle of Fenis and that one of Peacock.

In 1884 to Turin he devised the construction of the medioevale Village in the park of the Valentino, composita reproduction of piemontesi gotiche architectures.

Just the search of piemontesi medioevali buildings that could be taken like model to the aim of the realization of the medioevale Village, lead Of Andrade to Salassa.

Those brought back in this section are the copies of the originals reliefs and designs from the same one Of Andrade, today conserved to the Gallery of modern Art of Turin and kindly granted to the reproduction for this extension.