Antonio Rinaldi

Antonio Rinaldi (1709–1794) was an Italian architect from Palermo who worked most of his life in Russia. In 1751 Hetman Kirill Razumovsky summoned him to decorate his residences in what is now Ukraine.

From 1754 he served as chief architect of the young court of Peter III and Catherine II at Oranienbaum, where he built Peter III's palace and the Chinese Palace.

In the 1770s, as Grigory Orlov's architect, he designed the Marble Palace in Saint Petersburg and the vast Gatchina Castle, along with monuments at Tsarskoe Selo. In 1784 poor health took him back to Italy, and he died in Rome.