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Luigi Canina(1795-1856 CE)



Many attempts have been made to visualize the labyrinth as it existed in the time of Herodotus.

The drawing of the Italian architect and archaeologist Luigi Canina(1795-1856) shows, in plan, one
such reconstruction.

Among Canina’s his works are:



some construction at the Villa Borghese and Casino Vagnuzzi outside of Porta del Popolo in Egyptian style.

He was professor of architecture at Turin, and his most important works were the excavation of Tusculum in 1829 and of the Appian Way in 1848, the results of which he embodied in a number of works published in a costly form by his patroness, the queen of Sardinia.

Canina is also noted for his studies of history and archeology: Ancient architecture described and represented in documents (1830-44).