Antonio Visentini

Antonio Maria Visentini ( born November 21, 1688 in Venice, † June 26, 1782 ) was an Italian architect, painter and professor at the Venetian Academy.

Life

Visentini was born the son of the barber Melchiore Visentini, who died in 1709. He was a student of the Baroque painter Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, with the Marco Ricci went in 1708 to England, where Castle Howard imagined. The Venetian painters' guild " Fraglia dei pittori " called him in 1711 for the first time as a member. Its architecture studies on the St. Mark's Basilica, he gave in 1726 under the title " Iconografia Ducal Basilica della dell'Evangelista Marco" out.

Terminated from the collaboration with the British merchant and later Consul Joseph Smith for his publisher Pasquali grew a series of orders, the stitches to Canaletto's Venetian vistas under the title Venetiarum nobis Prospectus, started in 1728 with 38 stitches in 1735 and 1742 issued. The publisher Signet Pasquali with the Minerva and the motto " Litterarum felicitas " come from him. The initial and final piece vignettes for twenty -volume " Della Istoria d' Italia " by Francesco Guicciardini, 1738-1739 reissued in Pasquali, were by him, as well as in over 48 stitches.

With Francesco Zuccarelli in 1746, he led an order Smith ' out to paint English Palladian style villa in the capriccio, the templates for this were Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Brittanicus and William Kent, The Designs of Inigo Jones, the rural scenes painted Zuccarelli. Smith himself was involved in the translation of the sixth edition of the Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers in 1741 into Italian, with the illustrations for this " Dizionario Universale Delle Arti e delle Scienze, ..." Visentini was employed, which was thus the main illustrator of the publisher Pasquali.

Visentini received from Smith the contract for the conversion of his Byzantine Palazettos on the Grand Canal in the Palladian style, which lasted from 1743 to 1750. Before Visentini was in Smith's villa in the Terraferma, which had acquired this in 1731, had worked as an architect. His drawings of Villa came on the collection Smith in the possession of the Royal Library ..

The physicists at the University of Padua Giovanni Poleni he collaborated and provided the stitches for Polenis examination of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. Memorie istoriche della Gran Cupola del Tempio Vaticano, Padua 1748 at the Villa Valmarana ai Nani at Vicenza he received in 1757 an opportunity in a room to paint the frescoes, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo painted to the figures.

The English architect James Wyatt has worked with his stay in Italy from 1762 to 1768 in Venice at Visentini. Visentini was finally from 1772 to 1778 Professor of " Architettura Prospettica " at the Art Academy of Venice. Visentini published several "anti- baroque " fonts for titles like " Contra Rusconi " or " The errors of the architects ," a rebuttal to Teofilo Gallacini, published in 1771 in Pasquali.

Portrait

Visentinis edition Canaletto Venice Views 1751 contains Piazzettas portraits Visentinis and Canaletto, engraved as a double portrait of Visentini.

Writings

• Il contro - Rusconi, ò sia l' esame sopra l' architettura di Giovantonio Rusconi.
• Admiranda Urbis Venetae, 3 volumes 1730-1740
• Li cinque ordini dell'Architettura et anche la poste Prospect in versi, 1755
• Delle Osservazioni sopra le Fabbriche di Andrea Palladio
• Il parallelo dell'Architettura virtuosa à confronto dell'ignoranza, 1761
• Architettura mascherata che di presente fà redicolosa comparsa
• L' esame che fà l' Architettura alli Muratori, Marangoni e Tagliapietra
• Osservazioni architetto di veneto di che servono continuazione trattato al di sopra gli Teofilo Gallaccini errori degli architetti. Venezia 1771st