Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo (or Jacopo ) Barozzi da Vignola, or simply Vignola ( born October 1, 1507 Vignola, near Modena, † July 7, 1573 in Rome ) was an Italian architect of the Baroque in the 16th century. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese in Caprarola and the Jesuit Church of the Gesù in Rome.

Life

Trained in Bologna as a painter and draftsman perspective were among his first orders templates for inlay work. In 1536 he traveled to Rome to make measurement accurate drawings of Roman temples, to publish with the ulterior motive of an illustrated Vitruvius. Later he was called by King Francis I of France to Fontainebleau, where he spent the years 1541 to 1543. In Rome, where he was received by the Farnese, he worked with Michelangelo, who influenced his style greatly. From 1564 Vignola works at St. Peter's Basilica and designed by Michelangelo's plans, the two subordinate arches. His influence can be detected even in works Carlo Maderno on the facade of the cathedral.

In 1573 he designed with Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri as uniform longitudinal oval space another prototype of the Baroque church architecture.

His literary masterpiece is the architectural theory textbook " Regola delle cinque ordini d' architettura " normalize (Rules of the Five Orders of Architecture ) of 1562, in which he made ​​an effort, architectural structural elements in a fixed correlation of numbers. His unfinished in 1573 bequeathed perspective Teaching » Le due regole di prospettiva pratica " ( Two rules of practical perspective - Bologna 1583 ) contains his biography. Vignola presented practical applications without theoretical ambiguities that were understandable and implementable. This was in addition to Vignola, Serlio and Palladio, one of the three authors who spread the Italian style throughout Europe.

Vignola is buried in the Pantheon in Rome.

Other works

  • Palazzo Bocchi, Bologna ( 1545 )
  • The Tribune San Petronio in Bologna ( 1547/48 )
  • Palazzo dei Banchi, Bologna (1565-1568)
  • The Villa Giulia for Pope Julius III. , Where he worked with Giorgio Vasari (1550-1555)
  • The Villa Farnese in Caprarola (1559-1573)
  • The Fontana Papacqua in Soriano nel Cimino (1562)
  • The Villa Lante in Bagnaia (from 1566), including the gardens, water features and Casini
  • The Church of the Gesù in Rome, the mother church of the Jesuits, whose basic structure was groundbreaking for the baroque churches of the 17th century
  • The church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia in Rome, the first oval sacred building, also a "signature" of the Baroque
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