Giuseppe Partini

Giuseppe Partini ( born May 5, 1842 in Siena, † November 14, 1895 at the Villa delle Selve in Siena ) was an Italian architect and restorer.

Life

He was born in Via Salicotto on 5 May 1842 as Giuseppe Domenico Partini in Siena, the son of Giovanbattista Partini ( 1815-1876 ) and bonuses Zella Rossi ( 1804-1874 ) in Siena and was a member of the Contrada Torre ( tower). His education was Partini in Siena, first as a bricklayer's apprentice with an uncle. He then joined the Istituto di Belle Arti from 1857 to 1861 when Lorenzo Doveri ( born August 10, 1799 in Pisa, † October 6, 1866 in Siena) and Giulio Rossi. Later the teacher was at the same place. He established his first independent work in 1861 at nineteen in Monteroni d' Arbia, when he designed the Cappella della Villa Pieri Nerli a Quinciano and realized. After the death of his teacher Doveri he followed him to the post of cathedral architect of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta ( Siena Cathedral ). On August 31, 1867 Giuseppe Partini married in Buonconvento Clementina Cresti (* 1847). At the elections to the Council of Siena on July 26, 1868, he went to, but was not elected. Shortly thereafter, on August 16, his only child, Luigi ( Luigi Enrico Bartolomeo Maria) was born, the engineer and was later on October 15, 1893 Adele Sarrocchi, the daughter of Tito Sarrocchi ( 1872-1937 ), married, he with the had no children. Luigi himself died on July 11, 1930 in Monte Argentario. The wife of Giuseppe Partini, Clementina, was born on June 26, 1873 in a house fire killed. He was honorary architect of the 1879 Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze in Florence. In 1882, he came in his second inaugural to elections in Siena to an office in Consiglio Comunale. He died on November 14, 1895 in his home Villa delle Selve (Villa Selva ) and was buried in his wife's grave in the cemetery Campo Santo della Misericordia di Siena, the cemetery, which he himself had helped shape.

His style is often described as Purismo or Purismo Senese ( Sienese purism ) and falso storico (Improper History style ) or pseudo Gotico ( Gothic spurious, also Gothic Revival ) denotes. Criticism of his approach to restoration was (always too radical ) named semper troppo radical elements.

Among the masterpieces are his creation he designed the buildings of the Institute Tommaso Pendola and Santa Teresa and some chapels in the cemetery Campo Santo della Misericordia di Siena in Siena. More awareness procured him the restoration of several important monuments in Siena, where he was in two of the four basilicas ( San Francesco Dei Servi ), the Cathedral of Siena, historic palaces ( Palazzo del Rettorato, Palazzo Franci, Palazzo Marsili, university) as well as buildings around the Piazza Salimbeni ( now home to the bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena) and worked on the piazza itself. In the province of Siena, he was called as a restorer to several significant tete ends sacral monuments. So he worked in Asciano Monte Oliveto Maggiore Abbey and at the Collegiate di Sant'Agata, in Montalcino at the Abbey Sant 'Antimo and San Gimignano at the cathedral, at the Spedale Santa Fina, the city walls and the Palazzo Comunale. Remote his hometown, he was called to Acquapendente ( Lazio Region, Torre Alfina ), Chiavari ( Liguria Region, Palace of Justice ) and Zoagli ( region of Liguria, Cappella della Famiglia Gentilezza Canevaro ). With his friend Tito Sarrocchi worked together at the Piazza del Campo ( recreating the Fonte Gaia) and the Monumento of Sallustio Bandini in Siena.

Works (selection)

  • Acquapendente, district of Torre Alfina: Restorations at Castello di Torre Alfina (1880-1900) on behalf of Count Edoardo Cahen. The restoration involved the Palazzo Monaldeschi, the access ramp and the Piazza Sant'Angelo with garden area. The place now belongs to the community, the most beautiful villages in Italy.
  • Asciano: Collegiate di Sant'Agata: Restoration (1880-1884)
  • Asciano, Monte Oliveto Maggiore: Restoration
  • Buonconvento: Restorations at the Castello della Torre 1886
  • Chiavari, Palace of Justice: Restoration (1882 )
  • Chiusdino, Abbey San Galgano: Restoration (1881 )
  • Chiusi, Cathedral of Saint Secondiano: Renewal of the façade of the Cathedral (1884-1894)
  • Gaiole in Chianti, Brolio: Completion of 1860 begun by Pietro Marchetti restoration ( with Agenore Socini, 1880)
  • Grosseto, Cathedral of San Lorenzo: Work on the portal page (1876 )
  • Montalcino, Sant 'Antimo abbey: restoration (1871 )
  • Montalcino, Ospedale di Montalcino: Restoration (1870 )
  • Montepulciano, Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta: Restoration 1888
  • Montepulciano, Madonna di San Biagio: Restoration (1882 )
  • Monteroni d' Arbia: Cappella della Villa Pieri Nerli a Quinciano (1861 )
  • Monteroni d' Arbia, the district Lucignano d'Arbia: Pieve di San Giovanni Battista, restorations 1875
  • San Gimignano, Collegiate of Santa Maria Assunta (Duomo), Capella di Santa Fina: Restoration ( 1878-1881 )
  • San Gimignano, Palazzo Comunale (also Palazzo del Popolo and Palazzo Nuovo del Podestà called ): Restoration ( 1878-1881 )
  • San Gimignano, Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta a Cellole: Restoration (1875 )
  • San Gimignano, Spedale di Santa Fina (1865-1876)
  • San Gimignano, city walls: the restoration of the city walls (1885 )
  • San Quirico d' Orcia, Collegiate dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta: Restoration (1881-1888)
  • San Quirico d' Orcia, Cappella della Madonna di Vitaleta ( Località Vitaleta ): Restoration (1884 )
  • Siena, Accedemia dei Rozzi: Restoration (1862 )
  • Siena, Basilica di San Clemente in Santa Maria dei Servi: Restoration (1890-1901, with Agenore Socini )
  • Siena, Basilica di San Francesco: Restoration (1887-1894) and design of the high altar ( by Leopoldo Maccari realized)
  • Siena, Campo Santo della Misericordia di Siena: Completion of the work begun in 1843 by Lorenzo Doveri and extensions (1875 )
  • Cappella Bandini Piccolomini
  • Cappella De Metz ( 1893)
  • Called Cappella Clementini (1889 ), also Cappella Piccolomini Clementini
  • Cappella Franci (1887 )
  • Capella Pollini (1883 )
  • Cappella Nardi
  • Cappella Raffo (1890)
  • Tomb Clementina Cresti (wife, 1873 originated )
  • Restoration and installation of from Colle di Val d'Elsa ( Chiesa di San Francesco ) originating window by Domenico Ghirlandaio in the transept ( transetto, 1887)
  • Restoration of the façade of the Cathedral (1875 )
  • Restoration of the Baptistery of San Giovanni (1894-1899, with Agenore Socini )
  • Restoration of the dome after the fire of October 17, 1890
  • Restoration of the courtyard (1883 )
  • Monumental Sala Vittorio Emanuele II (1878-1890)
  • Restoration and modifications of the Rocca Salimenbi ( entrance ) and at the Piazza Salimbeni ( 1871-72 )
  • Palazzo Tantucci: restoration of the facade ( 1877-82 ) and redesign of the patio
  • Created the base of the monument of Sallustio Bandini ( work of Tito Sarrocchi ), 1880
  • Inaugurated in 1868 in the columns renewal January 1869
  • Displacement and replacement of the Fonte Gaia ( with Tito Sarrocchi )
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