Andrea Allio the Elder

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Andrea Allio the Elder (also: Aglio, Alio, D'Allio) (*?; † after 1652) was an Italian Baroque master builder in Vienna in the 17th century .

Life

He comes from a widespread family of builders and masons, stonemasons , sculptors and plasterers from the area around Lake Como , from Scaria in the Val d'Intelvi. His exact life dates are unknown. He came to Vienna as a married man in the 1620s and is there on the list of “professional masons” in 1630. In 1644 22 journeymen worked in his company. The last documented message from him comes from 1652.

plant

On March 2, 1643, the abbot of the Viennese Schottenstift , Anton Spindler von Hoffegg (r. 1642–1648), commissioned him and his cousin Andrea Allio the Younger , also a master builder, with the continuation of the partial rebuilding of the dilapidated and already partial building that had begun in 1638 collapsed and demolished Gothic Benedictine - Abbey in Freyung . They built the transept and main nave at the same height, so that a cross shape was created. Incorporating Romanesque walls, they created a barrel-vaulted wall pillar basilica in the style of the Italian early baroque. The plans came from the architects Antonio Carlone and Marco Spazzio . The Allios also rebuilt the crypt and changed the west facade, whereby the two towers were not completed. Silvestro Carlone was involved as another Viennese master builder . All stonemason work was carried out by the master stonemason Peter Concorz , who also acquired one of the quarries in the imperial quarry on Leithaberg . The church was consecrated in 1648.

literature

  • W. Berger: The Schottenstift Vienna . 1966.
  • Cölestin Roman Rapf: Das Schottenstift (Vienna History Books, Volume 13). Vienna, Hamburg 1974.
  • Heinrich Ferenczy: The Schottenstift and its works of art . Vienna 1980.
  • General artist lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 2. Developed, edited and edited by Günter Meißner and others. Seemann, Leipzig 1986, pp. 244, 246

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SURNAME Allio, Andrea the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aglio, Andrea; Alio, Andrea; D'Allio, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian baroque builder in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH before 1620
DATE OF DEATH after 1652