Domenico Gilardi

Domenico Giovanni Gilardi (occasionally Domenico Giliardi or Domentij Ivanowitsch Schiljardi ; born July 7, 1785 in Montagnola , today Collina d'Oro ; † February 26, 1845 in Milan ) was a Swiss architect of neoclassicism in Moscow .

Life

The front of the Moscow University designed by Gilardi

Gilardi was the son of the architect Giovanni Battista Gilardi . In 1796 he went to Moscow with his mother, where his father had worked as a state architect for several years. Between 1799 and 1802 Gilardi studied art in St. Petersburg , from 1802 to 1806 painting and then architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Between 1807 and 1810 Gilardi undertook numerous study trips to Rome , Florence and Venice before he married Maria Farina from Lugano in 1810 and in 1811 became his father's assistant in Moscow. His wife died in Moscow on June 17, 1812 at the age of 20. She found her final resting place in Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery .

In 1817 Gilardi took over the office of his father when he returned to Switzerland. As an important representative of late Russian classicism, Gilardi made a significant contribution to the redesign of Moscow after the fire in Moscow in 1812 . In 1832 Gilardi returned to Switzerland for health reasons, where he only worked on the design and construction of the San Pietro chapel in Gentilino . In addition, on March 5, 1833, he was elected a corresponding member of the Milan Academy. Gilardi was buried in the cemetery of the Church of Sant'Abbondio in Montagnola with his daughter Francesca, married Poncini, who was the only one of his children to reach adulthood.

building

1817–1819: Renovation of Moscow University
1817-1819: reconstruction of the Razumovsky - Palace
1818: Conversion of the Katharineninstitut
1818–1823: Remodeling of the widow's house in Barrikadnaya Street
1818–1823: Lunin House ( Dom Lunina ) on Suvorovskij Street

1820–1824: Prince Gagarin's house on Vorovsky Street

1821–1826: Moscow Guardianship Authority on Solyanka Street

1826–1832: Moscow Trade School on Baumanskaya Street

1820–1830: Count Golitsyn's country house in Kuz'minki near Vlakhernskoe

1830–1831: Usatschow (Usachëv), later on Najdënov, in Chkalov Street

1812–1813: Volkonsky Mausoleum in Sukhanovo

1832–1835: Mausoleum of Count Orlov in Otrada near Semionovskoe

Chapel of San Pietro in Gentilino

Honors

Gilardi was a bearer of the Order of St. Vladimir (1819) and the Russian Order of St. Anne (1824 and 1826).

literature

Elena Beletskaja, Sinaida K. Pokrovskaja: Domenico Gilardi . Traduzione di A. Merkoulov, Ed. Flavio Riva, Montagnola 1984.
Joseph Ehret: Three Swiss in ancient Russia . Swiss East Institute, Bern 1979, pp. 23–36.
Giuseppe Martinola : I Gilardi a Mosca . Edizione la Scuola, Bellinzona 1944.
Architetti neoclassici italiani e ticinesi fra Neva e Moscova . Exhibition catalog, Venice, 2001, 19–53, pp. 87–90.
Lara Calderari: Domenico Gilardi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 25, 2005 , accessed December 13, 2019 .

Web links

Foreigners in Russia: Domenico Gilardi , russiapedia, accessed on February 8, 2013.
Domenico Gilardi (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti

Individual evidence

^ Erik Amburger : Domenico Gilardi. In: Erik Amburger Database - Foreigners in Pre-Revolutionary Russia. IOS University of Regensburg, accessed on November 3, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Elena Beletskaja, Sinaida K. Pokrovskaja, traduzione di A. Merkoulov: Domenico Gilardi . Flavio Riva Editore, Montagnola 1984, p. 209 f .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Lara Calderari: Domenico Gilardi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 25, 2005 .
↑ Christine Hamel: Russia - From the Volga to the Neva: Moscow and the Golden Ring, St. Petersburg and Karelia, Novgorod, Pskow and Kazan . In: DuMont Art Travel Guide . 3. Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7701-4300-0 , p. 143 (Gilardi is incorrectly referred to as Italian in the book).

personal data
SURNAME	Gilardi, Domenico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Giliardi, Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH	July 7, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montagnola , today Collina d'Oro
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1845
Place of death	Milan

[1] Erik Amburger : Domenico Gilardi. In: Erik Amburger Database - Foreigners in Pre-Revolutionary Russia. IOS University of Regensburg, accessed on November 3, 2018 .

[:0-2] Elena Beletskaja, Sinaida K. Pokrovskaja, traduzione di A. Merkoulov: Domenico Gilardi . Flavio Riva Editore, Montagnola 1984, p. 209 f .

[HLS-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Lara Calderari: Domenico Gilardi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 25, 2005 .

[4] Christine Hamel: Russia - From the Volga to the Neva: Moscow and the Golden Ring, St. Petersburg and Karelia, Novgorod, Pskow and Kazan . In: DuMont Art Travel Guide . 3. Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7701-4300-0 , p. 143 (Gilardi is incorrectly referred to as Italian in the book).