page_title: Ernesto Basile
section_title: Notable works
hierarchical_section_title: Ernesto Basile / Notable works
caption_attribution_description: English: Teatro Massimo, Palermo. General view.
context_page_description: Ernesto Basile was an Italian architect and an exponent of modernisme and Liberty style, the Italian variant of Art Nouveau. He became well known because of his stylistic fusion of ancient, medieval and modern elements.
context_section_description: Villino Basile in collaboration with his father Giovanni Basile, 1874-78.
  National Exhibition in Palermo, in Arab-Norman style, 1891-92.
  Memorial in Calatafimi-Segesta, in order to commemorate the victory of Giuseppe Garibaldi against the Bourbons, 1892.
  Teatro Massimo in Palermo, 1891-97.
  Villa Firriato in Canicattì, 1898.
  Social theatre in Canicattì, 1898.
  Florio Vincenzo villa in Palermo, 1899.
  Grand Hotel Villa Igiea in Palermo, 1899-1900.
  Villino Florio in Palermo, 1899-1902.
  Tomba Raccuglia in Palermo, 1900.
  Cappella Lanza di Scalea, 1900.
  Palazzo Montecitorio, seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, 1903-27.
  Villino Fassini in Palermo, 1903.
  Villino Ida (named after his wife Ida Negrini), 1903-04.
  Villa dei Principi Deliella, 1905-07.
  Stand Florio in Palermo, 1906.
  Municipal Hall of Licata, 1906.
  Palazzo Bruno di Belmonte in Ispica, 1906.
  Florio Pavilion in Milan, 1906.
  Centre of electric power in Caltagirone, 1907.
  Expansion of Grand Hotel in Palermo, 1907.
  Palazzo della Cassa Centrale di Risparmio in Palermo, 1907-12.
  Square of the Sardinian in Messina, 1909.
  Villa Manganelli in Catania, 1909-14.
  Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali Venezia in Palermo, 1912.
  Town Hall of Reggio Calabria, 1918-21.
  Kursaal Biondo theatre in Palermo, 1913-14.
  Cassa di Risparmio in Messina, 1926-27.
  Church of Saint Rosalia in Palermo, 1928.
caption: Teatro Massimo in Palermo
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