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Temanza, Tommaso
(b Venice, 3 March 1705; d Venice, 14 June 1789). Italian architect, civil engineer and art historian. As an architect he is best known for the small neo-Palladian church of S Maria Maddalena (La Maddalena; see below) in Venice; as an art historian he is acclaimed for his Vite dei più celebri architetti e scultori veneziani che fiorirono nel secolo decimosesto. He lived and worked almost entirely in Venice and was a member of the circle of artists and intellectuals who frequented the house of the British consul and connoisseur Joseph Smith.
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