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Matteo Carnilivari or Carnelivari was an Italian architect active mainly from 1487 to 1493 in
Matteo Carnilivari or Carnelivari was an Italian architect active mainly from 1487 to 1493 in Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for it ...
, Sicily.
Biography
The notable architect of 15th-century Sicily is known for works that show the influences ofInternational Gothic
International Gothic is a period of Gothic art which began in Burgundy, France, and northern Italy in the late 14th and early 15th century. It then spread very widely across Western Europe, hence the name for the period, which was introduced by ...
with Norman-Swabian motifs influenced by Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid ...
art and of the new Renaissance style.
Among his main works are two palaces in Palermo: the Palazzo Abatellis
Palazzo Abatellis (also known as Palazzo Patella) is a palazzo in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, located in the Kalsa quarter. It is home to the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, the Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region.
History
The palaz ...
built 1487 - 1493 with a medieval side-tower and the Palazzo Aiutamicristo
Palazzo Ajutamicristo is a Late-Gothic architecture, Gothic and Renaissance architecture, Renaissance-style aristocratic palace located on VIa Garibaldi #23 of the ancient Kalsa quarter of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. It rises about a block ...
built 1490 - 1495 with its Spanish-style courtyard. The design of the church of Santa Maria della Catena has been attributed to him by its similarities with his other designs.
Designs
* ''Castello Chiaromontano'' or castello dell'Emiro (1487-1488) inMisilmeri
Misilmeri ( scn, Musulumeli) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily. It is approximately from Palermo and its name means "the resting place or the messuage of the Emir", and dates from the Muslim emirate of Sicily. ...
, owned by Guglielmo Ajutamicristo.
* ''Madonna della Vittoria'' church: rebuilt in 1488, and now part of the Oratorio dei Bianchi complex.
* ''Regia Cancelleria'' (1489) head of completion works.
* Palazzo of the baron of Sant'Angelo Muxaro (1490) in Agrigento
Agrigento (; scn, Girgenti or ; grc, Ἀκράγας, translit=Akrágas; la, Agrigentum or ; ar, كركنت, Kirkant, or ''Jirjant'') is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. It was one o ...
.
* ''Castello Vvevo'' (1494) in Augusta, Italy
Augusta (, archaically ''Agosta''; scn, Austa ; Greek and la, Megara Hyblaea, Medieval: ''Augusta'') is a town and in the province of Syracuse, located on the eastern coast of Sicily (southern Italy). The city is one of the main harbours in It ...
, headed restoration works Salvatore Cardella, ''L'architettura di Matteo Carnalivari'', Palermo, 1936.
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