Sebastiano Giuseppe Locati

Born to Francesco Locati and Angela Fossati, he studied at the Accademia di Brera, where he was a pupil of Camillo Boito and Carlo Formenti.

After completing his studies in 1881, he won the Oggioni Competition for a two-year post-graduate course in Rome, after which he moved to Paris, where he enrolled in the Académie des Beaux-Arts and where he updated his artistic knowledge, nurturing his eclectic taste.

[1] His career began in 1885 when he collaborated as an assistant with Luca Beltrami and Giovanni Ceruti in designing the Sartorelli house on the via Torino in Milan.

He also held the post of commissioner of the Conservative Commission of Monuments for Lombardy under the direction of the architect Gaetano Moretti.

Locati reached the peak of his professional career in 1906, when he was in charge of the general artistic direction of the section set up at the Parco Sempione of the great Milan International Exhibition, dedicated to the opening of the new Simplon railway tunnel.