ALEANDRI, Ireneo
(b. 1795, San Severino Marche, d. 1885, Macerata)

Viaduct

1847-57
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Ariccia, near Rome

Admiration for the fine engineering achievements of Roman Antiquity found expression in mid-19th-century functional architecture. The three-tier arching of the viaduct across a deep valley to Ariccia near Rome, built by Ireneo Aleandri between 1847 and 1854 during Pius IX's papacy, clearly emulates classical aqueducts.