Ignazio Pellegrini (1700-90) was a distinguished Italian architect, engineer, and draughtsman active across Tuscany and northern Italy during the mid-18th century. Trained in the classical tradition, Pellegrini gained recognition for his integration of architectural design with cartographic precision, producing both urban plans and architectural treatises that reflected the rationalist ideals of the Enlightenment. He served as an architect to several noble families in Tuscany. He was likely affiliated with the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, where he influenced a generation of architects and engineers.
His surviving works—both built and graphic—show a meticulous concern for proportion, order, and the fusion of architectural drawing with urban geography. Pellegrini’s pedagogical role is attested in the present Pianta della Città di Pisa, where his student Ranieri Spadaccini explicitly credits him as “il Sig.r Mag.g.re Conte Pellegrini,” indicating both noble rank and academic authority.
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Pianta della Citta di Pisa.
- $25,000
- A monumental 1760 manuscript plan of Pisa—an exceptional survivor of Italy’s Enlightenment cartographic tradition.
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