Galeazzo Alessi
Galeazzo Alessi (1512 – 30 December 1572) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the direction of Giovanni Battista Caporali.[1]
For a number of years he lived in
World Heritage List. Alessi displayed particular aptitude for organizing compositions on sloping sites.[2]
- Saint-Georges Church, Périgueux, France His work can be found in many other Italian cities, including in Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, the seventh largest Christian church at the time. Elsewhere in Europe, he designed churches and palaces in France, Germany and Flanders.[1] He produced designs for El Escorial in Spain, but age and health prevented him from carrying them out.
Selected works
Perugia
- Rocca Paolina, remodelling
- Loggia at the Oratorio di S. Angelo della Pace
- S. Maria del Popolo (Camera di Commercio)
- Loggia for the Palazzo dei Priori, remodelling
- Convent of Santa Giuliana (S. Caterina)
- Portale of the Villa del Leone
- Doorway in the southern flank of the Duomo
- Works for San Pietro
Assisi
- Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli
- Tabernacle of San Francesco (original design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Works in the Cathedral of San Rufino
Genoa
- Villa Giustiniani-Cambiaso, Albaro
- Basilica of S. Maria Assunta, Carignano[3]
- Porta del Molo (Porta Siberia), inserted in the city walls
- Cupola of St. Lawrence Cathedral[1]
- Villa delle Peschiere
- Villa Grimaldi-Sauli in Bisagno
- Proposals for the palazzi in the
Milan
- Palazzo Marino (Municipio di Milano), for the Genoese Tommaso Marino.[1][2]
- Auditorium of the Scuole Canobiane
- Santa Maria presso San Celso[1][3]
- San Raffaele
- Various projects in the Duomo di Milano, including the monument of the Arcimboldi.
Sacro Monte di Varallo (Vercelli)
- City plan
Rome
- Unexecuted designs for the Church of the Gesù
References
- ^ a b c d e f Sturgis, Russell (1901). A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Volume I. Macmillan. p. 41.
- ^ ISBN 0-14-051323-X.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.
- Rossi, Di Galeazzo Alessi memorie (Perugia, 1873)
- Emmina De Negri, Galeazzo Alessi : architetto a Genova, (Quaderni dell'Istituto di storia dell'arte dell'Università di Genova, number 1, (Genoa) 1957).
- Galeazzo Alessi e l'architettura del Cinquecento, atti del convegno internazionale di studi : Genoa, 16–20 April 1974, (Genoa 1975)
- R. L. Torrijos, "Un testamento dimenticato di Galeazzo Alessi", in Architettura, storia e documenti, 1 (1985:97-100)
- Thomas Henry Poole (1913). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
External links
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. I (9th ed.). 1878. p. 479.
- . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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