Natale Masuccio

Natale Masuccio (* 1568 in Messina; ? † 1619 in Messina ) was an Italian architect of the Baroque in Sicily.

Masuccio was a member of the Jesuits, who in 1597 sent him to Rome for architectural education, where, for example, dealt with the current trends of Roman architecture by Giacomo della Porta. Back to Sicily in 1603 was his first project of reconstruction of the Jesuit church of Palermo, which he architecturally designed to the requirements of the order of service of the Jesuits, by assigning the pulpit a central place in the nave. The building, designed by him, with marble mosaics precious crafted interior, was the prototype of the pictorial- decorative splendor of the Jesuit churches in Sicily.

In 1604 he designed, also in Palermo, College and Church of San Stanislao Kostka for the novices of the Jesuits ( the college buildings were during the riots of 1848 destroyed). 1614 followed in Trapani the Collegio and the church of the Jesuits, whose facade Marco Nobile and Tommaso Blandino is attributed. With the architectural overbooking of the individual components Masuccio drawn here on the Florentine Mannerism of the 16th century. From 1604 he supplied designs for Colleg and Jesuit Church in Messina, which were destroyed by the great earthquake of Messina in 1908. Conceptually, he laid the building in the form of a Renaissance palace with two courtyards, which fulfilled the requirements of a Jesuit school and the college of the Jesuits brotherhood. The plant for the Jesuits in Sciacca, dates back to 1613 to 1617 and as a last resort he built from 1616 the Palazzo Monte di Pietà in Messina.