Leopoldo Pollack
Leopoldo Pollack (1751 – 13 March 1806) was a Holy Roman Empire-born Italian architect who was active in Milan where he became one of the leading proponents of Neoclassical architecture.In Vienna, Pollack was trained by Paul Ulrich Trientl before attending courses at the Academy under Vinzenz Fischer.Clearly influenced by Palladianism and French trends, it has a rusticated base, a giant order of columns and is topped with a series of statues.[2] His elevations are inspired by Ange-Jacques Gabriel's Place de la Concorde although he used Ionic rather than Corinthian columns.[3] Pollack also collaborated with Piermarini on designing what is now the physics laboratory at the University of Pavia, completed in 1787, which includes a series of Ionic semi-columns and niches with statues of Galileo Galilei and Bonaventura Cavalieri.