Ventura RodrÃguez
Buenaventura Rodriguez Tizón become known as Ventura Rodríguez ( * July 14, 1717 in Ciempozuelos, Madrid, † September 26, 1785, Madrid) was one of the most important Spanish architects in the period of the late Baroque and the phase of transition to classicism (2nd half of the 18th century ).
Biography
Ventura Rodríguez was the son of Architecture professor Antonio Rodríguez and his wife Jerónima Tizón from Ciempozuelos in Madrid. Was taken early on his talents as a technical draftsman and the mediation of acting since 1735 at the Spanish court Italian architect Filippo Juvarra, he got a job in this profession. In 1741 he was employed as a second polishing the new building of the Palacio Real in Madrid. For a stay in Italy the mid- 1740s he studied the architecture of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini; in 1747 he was made an honorary member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1752 appointed the Spanish King Ferdinand VI. him as director of the newly founded Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
With the accession of the new king, Charles III. in 1759 he lost his position as court architect, so that he received no major contracts on the part of the court more - he had to keep consequently with smaller orders above water. His public reputation hardly suffered, because in 1764 he became city architect of Madrid; two years later (1766) the Council of Castile ( Consejo de Castilla ) commissioned him with the review of all submitted designs and cost estimates for new construction or repair work on public works. From the brother of former King Ferdinand VI. , Luis de Borbón y Farnesio, he got a contract to build two smaller palaces.
Ventura Rodríguez died in 1785. He and his colleague Juan de Villanueva found their final resting place at the Basilica of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid.
Works
Many of the works attributed to him is unclear whether Ventura Rodríguez designed only the plans and construction drawings, or whether he took over the complete construction management or supervised.
- Chapel of the Royal Palace, Madrid (1749-1759)
- Parish Church of San Marcos, Madrid (1749-1753)
- Basílica del Pilar, Zaragoza (1750 -? )
- Transparent in the Cathedral of Cuenca ( 1755 )
- Real Monasterio de la Encarnación, Madrid (1755-1767)
- Convento de los Agustinos Filipinos, Valladolid (1759 /60)
- Real Colegio de Cirugía, Barcelona (1761-1764)
- Sagrario of the Cathedral of Jaén (1761-1764)
- Palacio del Infante Don Luis, Boadilla del Monte (1761-1765)
- Casa consistorial, Haro (1769 )
- Library and glass factory, La Granja de San Ildefonso (1767-1769)
- Collegiate de San Isidro, Madrid (1767-1769)
- Palacio de Liria, Madrid ( 1770 )
- Palacio de Altamira, Madrid (1773-1775)
- Palacio de la Mosquera, Arenas de San Pedro ( 1775 /6)
- Monastery Church of Santo Domingo de Silos ( 1780 )
- Facade of Cathedral of Pamplona ( 1783)
- Ermita de San Nicasio, Leganés (1772-1785)
- Balneario de Las Caldas, Oviedo (1773-1776)
- Sanatorium, Trillo (1775 )
- Prison, Brihuega (1776 )
- Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Larrabezúa (1777-1784)
- Prämonstratenserkirche San Norberto, Madrid ( 1754, destroyed in 1810 )
- Puerta de Atocha, Madrid ( destroyed 1851)
- Collegiate de San Isidro, Madrid (1767-1769)
- Altarpiece ( retablo mayor ) of the Cathedral of Zamora ( 1765-1776 )
- Puerta de Alcala, Madrid ( 1764)
- Aqueduct of Noain, Navarra
- Fuente de Cibeles, Madrid
- Fuente de Ventura Rodríguez, Boadilla del Monte
- Fuente de las Conchas, Boadilla del Monte
Cybele's Fountain, Madrid
Aqueduct of Noain
Conchas fountain, Boadilla del Monte