Vico Viganò was a prominent Italian artist, architect, and printmaker primarily known for his contributions to the Milanese art scene during the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries. While he was a multifaceted creator, he is most celebrated for his mastery of etching. Viganò was one of the founders, in 1910, of the Associazione Italiana degli Acquafortisti e Incisori. His finest work as an etcher was published by Luca Beltrami in the catalogue, Acqueforti originali di Vico Viganò, Milan 1910.
Viganò also worked as an architect and poet. One of his most ambitious projects was a 1926 proposal for a monumental bell tower in Milan's Piazza del Duomo, which, though never built, became a lasting influence on his son's Vittoriano Viganò (1919–1996) a towering figure in Italian Brutalist architecture.