Giovanni Giocondo

Fra Giovanni Giocondo (also Giovanni da Verona, Verona * 1433, † 1515 in Rome ) was an Italian Dominican monk, humanist, archaeologist and architect and architectural theorist of the early Renaissance.

Life

Fra Giocondo seems to have dedicated the first half of his life mainly humanistic studies he combined with the study of ancient architecture. During this time he taught Julius Caesar Scaliger on his paternal estate Lodrone ( between Brescia and Trento ) in the Greek and Latin languages ​​. Although he was a member of a religious order, he spent most of his life outside the monastery. In Rome and other Italian cities Fra Giocondo collected more than 2000 inscriptions, dedicated to Lorenzo de ' Medici; a copy is in the Biblioteca Magliabecchiana to Florence. During his stay in France he found a manuscript of Caesar's Gallic War, which was provided with his commentary printed by Aldus in Venice. His illustrated by 140 woodcuts Vitruvius edition appeared in Venice in 1511. Through its extensive imaging, it coined almost all subsequent Vitruveditionen and was epoch-making in the history of Renaissance architecture. Other authors he had for the first time to print, as well as Columella 's De re rustica.

Fra Giocondo was the Republic of Venice, the Papal States and the three kings as an architect and engineer: King Ferrante of Naples, Charles VIII and Louis XII. of France. In Venice he worked as a hydraulic engineer, an architect of Verteidigungsanlangen the city and the Terraferma and he was involved in the development of the port, which threatened to silt up by the sediments of the Brenta. He designed a new Rialto Bridge and a complete redesign of the Rialto neighborhood in the form of a Roman forum, but it remained in the plans. In 1509 he had to fix Treviso and other cities in the Terraferma against the Emperor Maximilian. In the historic center of Padua is today a city wall, which was built in the sixteenth century from him. In 1512 he built a main pillar of the Adige river bridge in Verona again again. Fra Giocondo was one of many architects in the construction of St. Peter's in Rome, where he da Sangallo worked with Raphael and Giuliano.

His reputation as an architect was already established when it Louis XII. 1499 had come to Paris for the construction of the bridge of Notre Dame. The Pont Notre -Dame (1500-1512) was the first road system in Europe, which was built according to a single plan with two rows of 34 houses. This symmetrical arrangement of the houses served as a model for all subsequent court facilities in Paris ( Place Royale, the Place Dauphine ). Vincenzo Scamozzi praises the bridge, which was built as the first according to the principles of ancient architecture in the Renaissance. He built the Palazzo del Consiglio in his native town.

Fra Giovanni Giocondo is not identical with the architect and sculptor Fra Giovanni da Verona (ca. 1457-1525 ).

  • Architect (Italy )
  • Artist ( Rome)
  • Dominican brother
  • Italian
  • Born in 1433
  • Died in 1515
  • Man
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