The Architect of Roman Grandeur In the heart of a transforming Rome, where the echoes of antiquity met the burgeoning ambitions of a newly unified Italy, the name Gaetano Koch resonates as a symbol of architectural elegance and urban vision. Born in 1849 to a lineage steeped in artistic tradition—as the grandson of the celebrated German Romantic landscape painter Joseph Anton Koch—Gaetano was destined to shape the physical identity of…