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Protomaestro
Protomaestro or Proto was a title in the Venetian Republic referring to the head of construction or senior technical specialist responsible for the maintenance of buildings and engineering systems in the cities of the Venetian Lagoon.Goy, R. J. (2006)The building of Renaissance Venice: patrons, architects, and builders c. 1430—1500. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, P. 89 The title "protomaestro" was not synonymous with "architect" or "building designer"; the "proto" often combined several roles, including those of an architect, foreman, clerk, construction manager, coordinator, and financial overseer for building projects. According to Vincenzo Scamozzi, among other responsibilities, the "proto" was expected to "understand all aspects of construction, such as laying foundations, erecting walls, and building vaults, as well as being capable of erecting columns and all types of brick ornamentation, and of setting carved stones in place properly". The position of protomaestro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Saccardo
Pietro Saccardo (September 28, 1830 in Venice – November 19, 1903 in Chirignago-Zelarino, Chirignago) was an Italian architect. He was born and resided in Venice. Architectural works Among his works from 1881 are restorations of Villa Pisani (Mirano), Villa Pisani in Mirano and a belltower and church of Chirignago, one of the mainland boroughs of Venice, and the Colonia Agricola Astori in Milan. From 1887 to 1902, he was ''Protomaestro, proto'' or architect of the Basilica of St Mark, Venice, Basilica of St Mark and the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice. He restored many of the mosaics in the basilica. His assistant with wall paintings was Pietro Roi. Saccardo was blamed for not preventing the collapse of the St Mark's Campanile in 1902. References External links * 1830 births 1903 deaths Architects from Venice 19th-century Italian architects {{Italy-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacopo Sansovino
Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance architecture. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his ''Quattro Libri'' was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his '' Vita'' of Sansovino separately. Biography Sansovino was born in Florence, Italy, and apprenticed with Andrea Sansovino, whose name he subsequently adopted, changing his name from Jacopo Tatti. In Rome, while living in the palace of the late Cardinal Domenico della Rovere, Sansovino made a wax model of the Deposition of Christ for Perugino to use. Around 1510, Sansovino was invited by Bramante, along with three other sculptors to make wax copies of the Laocoön. Raphael judged Sansovino's copy as the best. Sansovino returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Rizzo (architect)
Antonio Rizzo (Osteno, c. 1430 – Cesena, c. 1499) was an Italian architect and sculptor, one of the greatest active in Venice in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Among his designs are the ''Scala dei Giganti'' (''Staircase of the Giants''), the stairs leading to the State Apartments of the Doge's Palace. Life Antonio Rizzo was the son of Rizzo di ser Giovanni of Osteno. He completed his apprenticeship on the site of the Certosa di Pavia. From 1457, he worked in Venice, in Antonio Bregno's workshop. Around 1469, Rizzo lived in a house belonging to the Benedictine nunnery of Santa Zaccaria, after his marriage to Maria, the daughter of the administrator of the nunnery. There is also evidence of a son, Simplicio, who was likely the Venetian goldsmith documented as active in Rome in the beginning of the 16th century. In 1474 and 1478, Rizzo was sent to Shkodër, Scutari as a military engineer. Both times (during the Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479), First Venetian-Ott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venetian Republic
The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and Maritime republics, maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto, over the course of its History of the Republic of Venice, 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the major European commercial and naval powers. Initially extended in the ''Dogado'' area (a territory currently comparable to the Metropolitan City of Venice), during its history it annexed a large part of Northeast Italy, Istria, Dalmatia, the coasts of present-day Montenegro and Albania as well as numerous islands in the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and eastern Ionian Sea, Ionian seas. At the height of its expansion, between the 13th and 16th centuries, it also governed Crete, Cyprus, the Peloponnese, a number of List of islands of Greece, Greek islands, as well as several cities and ports in the eastern Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mark's Basilica
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (), commonly known as St Mark's Basilica (; ), is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello. It is dedicated to and holds the relics of Saint Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of the city. The church is located on the eastern end of Saint Mark's Square, the former political and religious centre of the Republic of Venice, and is attached to the Doge's Palace. Prior to the fall of the republic in 1797, it was the chapel of the Doge and was subject to his jurisdiction, with the concurrence of the procurators of Saint Mark for administrative and financial affairs. The present structure is the third church, begun probably in 1063 to express Venice's growing civic consciousness and pride. Like the two earlier churches, its model was the sixth-century Church of the Holy Apostles in Constanti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Routledge, F1000 (publisher), F1000 Research and Dovepress. It is a division of Informa, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company. Overview Founding The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis (chemist), William Francis joined Richard Taylor (editor), Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor had founded his company in 1798. Their subjects covered agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences. Publications included the ''Philosophical Magazine''. Francis's son, Richard Taunton Francis (1883–1930), was sole partner in the firm from 1917 to 1930. Acquisitions and mergers In 1965, Taylor & Francis launched Wykeham Publications and began book publishing. T&F acquired Hemisphere Publishing in 1988, and the compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Lombardo
Monument of the Doge Pietro Mocenigo 1481 :''Pietro Lombardo is also the Italian version of the name of the theologian Peter Lombard.'' Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino), he was the father of Tullio Lombardo and Antonio Lombardo. In the late 15th century, Pietro Lombardo sculpted many Venetian tombs with the help of his sons. These tombs included those of Dante Alighieri, Doge Pasquale Malipiero and Pietro Mocenigo. He was the architect and chief sculptor for the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice (1481–1489) and of San Giobbe in Venice. He also depicted saints and the Virgin Mary on the walls of several Catholic churches. Pietro Lombardo is mentioned in line 27 of ''Canto ''XLV by Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an List of poets from the United States, American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Tirali
Andrea Tirali (around 1660–1737) was an Italian architect working in Venice and the Veneto. He was responsible for the intricate design of the pavement in the Piazza San Marco in Venice (from 1723). retrieved 21 August 2007 In the Basilica of Saints Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, he built the chapel of St Dominic (1700-20) and the elaborate tomb of the Valier doges (c. 1704–07). He designed the portico to Vincenzo Scamozzi's San Nicolò di Tolentino (1706-14) and the facade of S. Vidal (c. 1725–35). Other works in Venice include the Ponte dei Tre Archi at Cannaregio (1688), Scuola dell'Angelo Custode at Santi Apostoli (1713), Palazzo Priuli (later Manfrin Venier; 1724–31), the Palazzo Diedo (between 1710 and 1720) and the staircase of Ca' Sagredo (c. 1734). He is the architect of the Villa Morosini (later Vendramin Calergi) at Fiesso Umbertiano (from 1706) and possibly Villa Sceriman (later Widmann Foscari Rezzonico; 1719) at Mira. From 1700, he built the bell tower of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venetian Arsenal
The Venetian Arsenal () is a complex of former shipyards and Armory (military), armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Republic of Venice, Venetian Republic's Venetian navy, naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was "one of the earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history". Overview Construction of the Arsenal began around 1104, during Venice's Republic of Venice, republican era. It became the largest industrial complex in Europe before the Industrial Revolution, spanning an area of about , or about 15 percent of Venice.Giove, S., Rosato, P. & Breil, M.A multicriteria approach for the evaluation of the sustainability of re-use of historic buildings in Venice" ''Sustainability indicators and environmental valuation paper - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.'' October 2008. Accessed 30 January 2010. Surrounded by a defensive wall, rampart, laborer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Tremignon
Alessandro Tremignón (or Tremignàn, Tremiglióne; 1635–1711) was an Italian architect from Padua. Work Tremignon was active in Venice. He was influenced by Baldassare Longhèna. Tremignon adapted the High Baroque structural style of Longhena into a typically Late Baroque style with pictorial effects exemplified by the facade of the San Moisè church. His most famous work is the facade of the San Moisè with its exuberant sculptural decorations. The name of the church of San Moisè (Saint Moses) treats the old-Testament figure of Moses as a saint in the Byzantine manner. It also honors Moisè Venier, who paid for restoration of the church in the tenth century. The facade was designed by Tremignon and mostly sculpted by Heinrich Meyring (Arrigo Meréngo), one of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's pupils. It features grotesque carvings of camels above the main entrance. The main altarpiece, also the work of Tremignon and Meyring, represents ''Mount Sinai with Moses Receiving the Tablets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Longhena
Baldassare Longhena (1598 – 18 February 1682) was an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period. His style is characterized by monumentality, skillful use of light and shadow, and an understanding of Venetian aesthetics. Biography Born in Venice to his father Melchisedecco, a stone-carver who contrived to have Longhena study under the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi. After Scamozzi's death Longhena completed his monumental Procuratie Nuove in St. Mark's Square, a complex of imposing residences and offices for officials of the Venetian Republic that gives the square its appearance today. His best-known work is the elegantly decorated Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute begun in 1631 to thank the Virgin for the city's deliverance from the plague. This two domed church on the peninsula between the Canal Grande and the Zattere is one of the city's best-known landmarks. The main entrance, model ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
