Matteo Castelli (c. 1555,

Melide, Switzerland Melide is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village lies very close to the mountain Monte San Salvatore and is directly on the Lake of Lugano. The Melide causeway to the east was built to make ...

- 1632,

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

) was a Swiss architect. His nephew

Costante Tencalla Costante Tencalla (1593, Bissone - 1646, Warsaw) was a Swiss-Italian architect and sculptor. Life He trained in Rome and spent his early working life there before going to Poland with his uncle Matteo Castelli, who became Poland's first royal a ...

also became an architect. Further can be attributed to Castelli: in Kraków the church of St. Peter and Paul (1613–1619, the only church north of the Alps in the Roman Baroque style), the

Zbaraski 200px, Korybut coat of arms The House of Zbaraski was a princely family of Ruthenian origin in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland domiciled in Volhynia (today Ukraine). The name is derived from the town of Zbarazh, the core of their dominions ...

princely chapel in the Dominican church (1627-1629) and the altar of St. Stanislaus in the cathedral, also in Vilnius cathedral the chapel of St. Casimir (1626–1636), the Ujazdowski palace and the royal residence near Warsaw. In Melide he donated a memorial chapel in 1625-1626 and rebuilt the altar of his family in the parish church.

Selected works

Rome

* facade of

Santa Susanna The Church of Saint Susanna at the Baths of Diocletian ( it, Chiesa di Santa Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano) is a Roman Catholic parish church located on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, Italy. There has been a titular church associated to its site ...

(in collaboration with Francesco Rossi, to plans by

Carlo Maderno Carlo Maderno (Maderna) (1556 – 30 January 1629) was an Italian architect, born in today's Ticino, who is remembered as one of the fathers of Baroque architecture. His façades of Santa Susanna, St. Peter's Basilica and Sant'Andrea della Val ...

), 1597-1603 Mariusz Karpowicz, ''Artisti Ticinesi In Polonia nel '600'', Arti grafiche Bernasconi S.A., Lugano-Agno 1983, page 55 * Cappella Barberini at

Sant'Andrea della Valle Sant'Andrea della Valle is a minor basilica in the rione of Sant'Eustachio of the city of Rome, Italy. The basilica is the general seat for the religious order of the Theatines. It is located at Piazza Vidoni, at the intersection of Corso Vitto ...

* Sant'Andrea della Valle (collaboration with Carlo Maderno) *

Palazzo Mattei A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome which ...

(collaboration with Carlo Maderno)

Florence

* Cappella Rucellai

Poland and Lithuania

* Royal Castle of Warsaw (rebuilding) *

Ujazdów Castle Ujazdów Castle ( pl, Zamek Ujazdowski) is a castle in the historic Ujazdów district, between Ujazdów Park (''Park Ujazdowski'') and the Royal Baths Park (''Łazienki Królewskie''), in Warsaw, Poland. Its beginnings date to the 13th centur ...

in Warsaw (collaboration with

Giovanni Trevano Giovanni Battista Trevano (born in Lugano, Switzerland, died 1644 in Krakow, Poland) was an Italian-speaking architect who worked in Poland as royal architect for King Sigismund III Vasa, of the Vasa dynasty, which ruled Poland at the time. ...

) in 1624 * Chapel of Saint Casimir in

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional u ...

References

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Giovanni Baglione Giovanni Baglione (1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious and damaging involvement with the slightly younger artist Caravaggio and ...

, ''Le Vite de' Pittori, Scultori et Architetti dal Pontificato di Gregorio XIII fino a tutto quello d'Urbano VIII'', Roma 1642. * Giuseppe Bianchi, ''Gli Artisti Ticinesi. Dizionario biografico'', Libreria Bianchi, Lugano 1900, 47–48. *

Piero Bianconi Piero Bianconi (1 June 1899 in Minusio – 5 June 1984 in Minusio) was a Swiss-Italian writer and academic. He was the son of Alessandro and Margherita Rusconi and the brother of the poet Giovanni Bianconi. He graduated in Italian literature from ...

, ''Cappelle del Ticino'', Pedrazzini Edizioni, Locarno 1971, (13), (14). * Jacob Hess, ''Studien zu Renaissance und Barock'', Volume 1, 354–356. * Mariusz Karpowicz, ''Artisti Ticinesi In Polonia nel '600'', Arti grafiche Bernasconi S.A., Lugano-Agno 1983, 29, 46, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 74, 94, 98, 105; Idem, ''Matteo Castello, architekt wczesnego baroku'', Wydawn. Neriton, Varsavia 1994; Idem, ''Matteo Castello. L'architetto del primo barocco a Roma e in Polonia'', Lugano 2003; Idem, ''Matteo Castello da Melide. L'architetto del primo barocco da Roma alla Polonia'', in Giorgio Mollisi (a cura di), Arte&Storia, Svizzeri a Roma nella storia, nell'arte, nella cultura, nell'economia dal Cinquecento ad oggi, Edizioni Ticino Management, anno 8, numero 35, settembre-ottobre 2007, Lugano 2007, 124-129 (con bibliografia aggiornata). * Rūstis Kamuntavičius et alii: ''Artisti del lago di Lugano e del Mendrisiotto in Lituania'', in ''Gli artisti del lago di Lugano e del Mendrisiotto nel Granducato di Lituania (dal XVI al XVIII sec.)'', Hrsg Giorgio Mollisi, «Arte&Storia», Edizioni Ticino Management, anno 13, numero 59, agosto-ottobre 2013, Lugano 2013.
Works of Matteo Castelli
16th-century architects 17th-century architects 1555 births 1632 deaths Swiss people of Italian descent Architects from Ticino {{Switzerland-architect-stub