Domenico Egidio Rossi

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Domenico Egidio Rossi (born September 1, 1659 in Fano , † February 19, 1715 in Fano) was an Italian architect and builder.

Life

Rossi was born on the Italian Adriatic coast . His father was Joseph from Arzo . He trained as an architect and quadrature painter in Bologna . Rossi then worked in Prague and Vienna for several large aristocratic families: From 1692 to 1695, the Bohemian Count Hermann Jakob Czernin von Chudenitz († 1710) entrusted him with the management of his building trade in Prague. After Rossi had threatened a plasterer from among his competitors with a sword, he was wanted with an arrest warrant and then fled to Vienna. There he worked for the House of Liechtenstein in Bohemia ,Moravia and Vienna.

Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden and his wife Franziska Sibylla Augusta von Sachsen-Lauenburg recruited him from Count Czernin in 1697/98 and brought Rossi to Rastatt as their building manager . Rossi was significantly involved in the planning of the city of Rastatt, one of his most important works is the Rastatt Castle . Rossi also worked at the court of the margraves in Durlach . In 1703/04 he made a trip to Bologna and Fano.

Rossi lived in Rastatt with his wife Anna Magdalena and their four children until the margrave's death in January 1707. The court architect became too expensive for the margrave's widow , so she dismissed him from her service a few weeks after the margrave's death in 1707 and his pupil Lorenzo di Sale appointed the new court architect. Rossi then returned to Italy in 1708, where he worked for the Duke of Parma , Francesco Maria Farnese . In 1708 Rossi was called to account by the margravine for damage to the roof structure and the ceilings of the Rastatt castle and in 1708 he was arrested in Mantua , but was soon released again.

Selection of works

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Panorama from the main courtyard of the Rastatt Palace

The imperial quarry

Above all, load-bearing architectural parts were made from the hardest Kaiserstein , which is how the collaboration with Kaisersteinbruch masters is documented. The masters Francesco della Torre , he learned the stonemason trade from Hieronymus Bregno in Kaisersteinbruch and Vienna, and Giovanni Battista Passerini formed a working group. Together they received the Prague Citizenship Certificate on October 30, 1663 . Witnesses were Domenico Egidio Rossi, architect at the Czernin Palace and Orsi de Orsini , architect at the Clementinum, etc. Rossi was the godfather of Torres' children.

Some examples:

Fonts

  • Domenico Egidio Rossi: Studio d'architettura civile . Rome 1721

literature

  • Cristiano Marchegiani: "Rossi, Domenico Egidio", Dizionario biografico degli Italiani , Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, LXXXVIII, 2017, pp. 609-611.
  • Sandra Eberle: Domenico Egidio Rossi, draftsman and planner. Born 350 years ago. The Italian architect of the "Türkenlouis" . In: Castles of Baden-Württemberg. State gazette for Baden-Württemberg . H. 1, 2009, ISSN  0943-5298 , pp. 26-29.
  • Wolfgang E. Stopfel: Domenico Egidio Rossi. The architect of the Rastatt Palace . City of Rastatt, Rastatt 1986.
  • Franco Battistelli: Documenti inediti sull'architetto Fanese Domenico Egidio Rossi (1659/1715) . = Unpublished documents about the Fano-born architect Domenico Egidio Rossi (1659/1715) . Comune di Fano, Fano 1984.
  • Helmut Lorenz, Wilhelm Georg Rizzi: Domenico Egidio Rossi's original plans for the Liechtenstein Garden Palace in Vienna . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte . 33, 1980, ISSN  0083-9981 , pp. 177-179.
  • Günter Passavant: Studies on Domenico Egidio Rossi and his architectural work within the southern German and Austrian baroque . Braun, Karlsruhe 1967.
  • Eliana Perotti: Domenico Egidio Rossi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 24, 2010 .
  • Gerhard Peters: The Residenzschloß zu Rastatt and its architect, Domenico Egidio Rossi . Munich, Phil. Diss. V. Feb 21, 1924.
  • Karl Lohmeyer : The engineer and Margravial Baden chief building director Domenico Egidio Rossi's letters about the Durlach castle building . In: Journal for the History of Architecture . 6th vol., 1913, ISSN  0935-7076 , pp. 216-225.
  • Karl Lohmeyer: Contributions to the building history of the Rastatt castle . Part 1/2: The correspondence of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden with the architect and engineer Domenico Egidio Rossi 1698–1701. The complaint of the master builder Johann Jakob Rischer against the architect and engineer Rossi . In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . NF 27, H. 2, 1912, ISSN  0044-2607 , pp. 270-307.
  • Karl Lohmeyer: Domenico Egidio Rossi and his palace buildings in Germany . In: Repertory for Art History . 40, 1907, ISSN  0259-7063 , pp. 193-211.

Web links

Commons : Domenico Egidio Rossi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Francesco della Torre, Giovanni Battista Passerini, Ambrosius Ferrethi , Martin Trumler were named by name (selection) . In: Helmuth Furch , Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch. Volume 2 I – Z, Torre della Francesco , Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch , Bruckneudorf-Kaisersteinbruch 2004.
  2. ^ Historical lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. Volume 2 I-Z. PDF.
personal data
SURNAME Rossi, Domenico Egidio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and builder
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Fano
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1715
Place of death Fano