Agostino Barelli

Theatine Church in Munich

Agostino Barelli (born October 26, 1627 in Bologna ; † January 29, 1697 there ) was an Italian architect and builder . His style followed the Italian high baroque , which he brought across the Alps as a Bavarian court architect.

Life

Agostino Barelli learned the mason trade and drawing from his father Giovanni Battista, together with his younger brother Pellegrino. In 1653 he was commissioned to build the new Theatine Church of San Bartolomeo e Gaetano in Bologna . Barelli was then the Elector Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria and his wife Henriette Adelaide as a court architect of Munich appointed. Barelli designed the Theatine Church of St. Kajetan. The model for the church was the mother church of the order of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome , but two monumental towers were added to the Theatinerkirche in Munich. One of the earliest high baroque buildings north of the Alps was built between 1663 and 1674. Its construction manager was Lorenzo Perti .

In 1664 Barelli also drafted the plans for Nymphenburg Palace and a new building at the Munich Residence . Here, as an architect with Antonio Pistorini, from whom the room designs came, he built what would later become the so-called Papal Rooms. After intrigues at court, Barelli threw in the towel after he was placed under the cleric Antonio Spinelli due to malpractice (so he confused Roman with Bologna feet) . He returned to Bologna in 1668 and was replaced by Enrico Zuccalli as court architect in 1674 . Just a few months after his final return, Barelli was appointed master builder of the Bologna Theatine branch. In 1676 he was appointed city architect (architetto pubblico) by the Senate of Bologna. An important work from 1676 is the Porta delle Lame, which is now the free-standing city gate in Bologna. For Senator Ghislieri, he built the Oratory San Carlo on his estate in Sant'Agostino in 1685.

literature

• Juliane von Åkerman: Agostino Barelli . In: Jürgen Wurst, Alexander Langheiter (Ed.): Monachia . Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-88645-156-9 , p. 105.
• Lorenz Maier : Barelli, Agostino. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 41 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf:  Barelli, Agostino. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 587 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Luisa Hager: Nymphenburg. Castle, park and castles . Hirmer, Munich 1955, DNB  451770196 (with photos by Max Hirmer).
• Adriano Peroni: L'architetto della Theatinerkirche di Monaco Agostino Barelli (1627–1687?) E la tradizione architettonica bolognese . In: Palladio 8.1958

Web links

Commons : Agostino Barelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Häutle and Georg F. Seidel, Georg: The Royal Residence in Munich: with the support of His Majesty the King Ludwig II: History of the Residence in Munich: from its earliest times down to the year 1777 . Leipzig 1883, p. 79 .
2. ^ Sueddeutscher-Barock, Agostino Barelli. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .