Giovanni Mangone

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Palazzo Massimo di Pirro in Rome (today along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II) is the only building still extant surely designed by Giovanni Mangone

Giovanni Mangone (born towards the end of 15th century, died 25 June 1543) was an Italian artist active almost exclusively in

Academy dei Virtuosi al Pantheon
. As military engineer, he was renowned among his contemporaries.

Life and works

Tomb of Cardinal Willem van Enckevoirt at Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome

Born around the end of the fifteenth century by Francesco, a native of

apostolic Chamber.[1] Moreover, during his whole career he worked also as building estimator.[1]

In 1534 started his collaboration with Antonio da Sangallo the Younger: together they prepared apparati effimeri in wood to celebrate the crowning of Pope Paul III (r. 1534–49) and in 1536, the visit to Rome of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.[1]

In 1537 Mangone modified the monastery of the

Servites near the Church of San Marcello al Corso, which he completed.[1] However, due to subsequent changes in the seventeenth century, his work at the monastery is no longer recognizable.[1]

Perhaps since 1532 he designed for Angelo

Musei Capitolini.[1] The edifice is adjacent to the palace named Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, realized in those years by Baldassare Peruzzi and commissioned by Angelo's brother Pietro.[1][2]

Palazzo Massimo di Pirro is Mangone's only certain architectural work still extant.

corbels, the equilibrium of the façade, he shows an original style.[1][2][3]

Based on stylistic analysis, have been attributed to him also the palazzo Alicorni in Borgo Vecchio (later piazza Rusticucci) in Borgo (demolished in 1931 and later rebuilt) and – more doubtfully – the Palazzetto De Vellis in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere.[1]

As a sculptor, only two works have been attributed to him: well-done appears to be the funerary monument to

Cardinal Willem van Enckevoirt (dead in 1534) in Santa Maria dell'Anima, where is evident an influence from Michelangelo, while that of the bishop of Chiusi and Governor of Bologna Gregorio Magalotti in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, engraved in 1538, radiates a cold feeling.[1]

As a

Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, one of the main centers of discussions about antiquities and architecture in Rome.[1]

On 25 June 1543 he made his will, dying perhaps on the same day.[1]

Significance

Palazzo Alicorni (here before its demolition in 1931 and later reconstruction) could be attributed to Mangone because of its stylistic resemblance with the Palazzo di Pirro

As a sculptor, Mangone followed Andrea Sansovino, reaching mixed results.[1]

As an architect, his former education as a sculptor and

stonemason in the design of moldings allowed him to reach a remarkable equilibrium of proportions.[1] Moreover, Mangone was among the first to spread the "severe" style initiated by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.[1] With the Palazzo di Pirro, he designed a good example of "everyday" architecture which found many imitators in the second part of 16th century.[1]
As a military architect, although he was praised by the
military engineer Francesco De Marchi, the absence of extant works which can be attributed to him makes difficult to assess its real contribution to this field.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Ghisetti Giavarina, Adriano (2007). "Mangone, Giovanni" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Pericoli Ridolfini, Cecilia, ed. (1973). Guide rionali di Roma (in Italian). Vol. Parione (I) (2 ed.). Roma: Fratelli Palombi Editori. p. 120.
  3. ISSN 0393-2710
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