Agnolo di Ventura

Tomb slab of Guido Tarlati in the Arezzo Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Donato) with the 16 stations in the life of Guido Tarlati

Detail of the grave slab of Guido Tarlati in the cathedral of Arezzo (Cattedrale di San Donato): 12th station (Caprese), depicts the conquest of Caprese Michelangelo in 1324

Cassero Senese fortifications in Grosseto

Cassero Senese fortification in Massa Marittima

Porta Romana city ​​gate in Siena

Porta Tufi city ​​gate in Siena

Agnolo di Ventura , also called Agnolo da Siena , (* around 1290 in Siena , † around 1349) was an Italian architect and sculptor .

Life

He was first mentioned in writing in 1312. At that time he lived in the Contrada di San Quirico near Castelvecchio (today part of the Contrada Pantera). In the same year illuminations were created for the Biccherna (a kind of tax office and / or registry of the city of Siena). For the city of Siena he worked with Viva di Compagno as building commissioner from 1325 and worked for the city from 1329 on buildings fuori Porte Salarie (now called Fontebranda).

One of his closest collaborators was Agostino di Giovanni (also called Agostino da Siena ). In the biographies Le vite dei più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti by Giorgio Vasari , he is mentioned with Agnolo di Ventura under Vita di Agostino et Agnolo, Scultori et architetti sanesi . Vasari attributes them to Giovanni Pisano as their teacher and names them as architects of the church and the convent of the Basilica di San Francesco in Siena and of the same name in Bologna . The tombstones of the grave of Guido Tarlati in Arezzo Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Donato) are among the most important works of the two . The 16 tombstones were made in 1330 by order of the Brothers of the Different, Delfo and Pier Saccone Tarlati. The tombstones of the tomb of Bishop Guido Tarlati in the cathedral of Arezzo (Cattedrale di San Donato) are among the most important works of the two . The 16 tombstones were made in 1330 by order of the deceased's brothers, Delfo and Pier Saccone Tarlati.

He also made a name for himself as an architect of military facilities. In Siena he is considered to be the builder of the city gates Porta Romana, Porta Sant'Agata and Porta Tufi in the course of the construction of the fourth city wall ring. He also built the Senese fortifications (Cassero senese) in Grosseto and Massa Marittima .

Works (selection)

• Arezzo , Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Donato): Tomb of Guido Tarlati ( Cenotafio Tarlati , created in 1330 with Agnolo di Ventura) with 16 stations from the life of Guido Tarlati
  • Fatto vescovo
  • Chiamato signore
  • Il Comune Pelato
  • Comme in Signoria
  • El Fare de le Mura
  • Lucignano
  • Chiusci
  • Fronzola
  • Castei Focognano
  • Rondine
  • Bucine
  • Caprese
  • Laterina
  • Il Monte San Savino
  • La Coronazione
  • La morte di misere
• Arezzo, Museo statale d'arte medievale e moderna: Testa di condottiero
• Grosseto : Cassero Senese fortification, built in 1334 with Guido di Pace
• Massa Marittima : Cassero Senese fortifications (with Agostino di Giovanni)
• Massa Marittima: Cathedral of San Cerbone : 11 statuettes
• Rome , Santa Maria sopra Minerva : tomb of Matteo Orsini (built in 1341)
• Siena, Basilica di San Francesco : Cappella sepolcrale della famiglia Petroni (with Agnolo di Ventura)
• Siena, Palazzo Pubblico : interior architecture (1331 with Agostino di Giovanni)
• Siena, Porta Romana : town gate built in 1327 (with Agostino di Giovanni)
• Siena, Porta Sant'Agata: the city gate built in 1325, is now within the city walls.
• Siena, Porta Tufi : city gate (1325)
• Volterra , Dom Santa Maria Assunta : Storie dei santi Regolo e Ottaviano (created with Agostino di Giovanni in 1320, is now in the Museo diocesano d'arte sacra)

literature

• E. Scatassa: Agostino di Giovanni and Agnolo di Ventura . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 128–130 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Roberto Bartalini: Scultura gotica in Toscana. Maestri, monumenti, cantieri del Due e Trecento , Silvana Editoriale, published by the Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Siena 2005.
• Isa Belli Barsali:  AGNOLO di Ventura. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 1:  Aaron – Albertucci. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
• Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena (ed.): The Sansedoni Palace , Protagon Editori, Siena 2005, ISBN 88-8024-142-7 .
• Saur: General artist lexicon . Volume 1, KG Saur Verlag, Munich and Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 533 ff.
• Piero Torriti: Tutta Siena. Contrada per Contrada , Edizioni Bonechi, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-7204-456-1 .
• Giorgio Vasari : Le vite dei più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti. Newton & Compton Editori, Rome 2010, ISBN 978-88-541-1425-8 , pp. 164-169.

Web links

Commons : Agnolo di Ventura  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dizinario Biografico degli Italiani DBI on Agnolo di Ventura

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} cf. DBI Treccani
2. ↑ cf. Saur p. 533.
3. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Vasari p. 164 ff.
4. ↑ cf. Saur p. 533 (Agostino di Giovanni)
5. ↑ cf. Bartalini p. 229
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} cf. Saur p. 534
7. ↑ cf. Torriti p. 378
8. ↑ cf. Torriti p. 24 ff.
9. ^ Franklin Toker: The Contract of 1340: An Unicum in European Architecture. In: The Sansedoni Palace. P. 196.