BONOMI, GIUSEPPE (1739-1808), English architect, was born at Rome on Jan. 19, 1739, and died in London on March 9, 1808. He already had a considerable reputation in Italy when he came in 1767 to England and began to practise. Bonomi was largely responsible for the revival of classical architecture in Eng land. His most famous work was the Italian villa at Roseneath, Dumbartonshire, designed for the Duke of Argyll. In 1804 he was appointed honorary architect to St. Peter's at Rome.
His son, GIUSEPPE BONOMI (1796-1878), studied art in London at the Royal Academy, and is best known as an illustrator of the leading Egyptological publications of his day. From 1824 to 1832 he was in Egypt, making drawings of the monuments in the company of Burton, Lane and Wilkinson. In 1833 he visited the mosque of Omar, returning with detailed drawings, and from 1842 to 1844 was again in Egypt, attached to the Prussian gov ernment exploration expedition under Lepsius. He assisted in the arrangement of the Egyptian court at the Crystal Palace in and in 1861 was appointed curator of the Soane Museum. He died on March 3, 1878.