Andrea Pozzo
Andrea Pozzo (also: puteus and Pozzi * 30th November 1642 in Trento , † 31 August 1709 in Vienna ) was an Italian painter and architect , Baroque of the best known for its trompe l'oeil -Kuppel fresco is known.
Life
Andrea Pozzo, son of Jacobi from Como , belonged as a lay brother to the Jesuit order and was the leading theoretician of illusionist painting of his time, his treatise From the perspective of a painter and architect ( Perspectivae pictorum et architectorum ) was widely received.
From 1702 he was in Vienna at the invitation of Emperor Leopold I. Most famous is its false dome in the Jesuit church (1703). Its false dome in the church Badia delle Sante Flora e Lucilla in the Tuscan city of Arezzo also dates from 1703 . He also painted their garden palace in Roßau for the Princes of Liechtenstein , but died before he could finish anything more than the frescoes in the Herkulessaal (the large ballroom there).
His other works include the perspective frescoes in the Roman church of Sant'Ignazio , the baroque altar in the main church of the Jesuits in Rome , Il Gesù , and the design of the cathedral of St. Nicholas in Ljubljana ( Stolnica ). It is believed that Pozzo also designed the facade of the Jesuit church Santa Maria Maggiore in Trieste .
Typical for his painting style are strong foreshortening of perspective, the quadrature painting takes up a lot of space - in contrast to, for example, Sebastiano Ricci , who instead works with an extreme view from below .
Andrea was the brother of the lesser known architect, sculptor and painter Fra Giuseppe di San Antonio Pozzo, also Jacopo Antonio Pozzo.
Picture gallery
Mock dome in the Jesuit Church (Vienna)
Ceiling fresco above the altar of the Jesuit Church in Vienna
Triumph of Saint Ignatius, Rome
literature
- Ingeborg Dorchenas: POZZO (Puteus, Pozzi) Andrea. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 901-905.
- Peter Prange: Pozzo, Andrea. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 664-666 ( digitized version ).
- Felix Burda-Stengel: Andrea Pozzo and video art, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7861-2386-1
- Felix Burda-Stengel: Andrea Pozzo and Video Art, Saint Joseph's University Press, Philadelphia 2013, ISBN 978-0-916101-78-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Andrea Pozzo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Artisti Italiani in Austria - biography, detailed work description and bibliography
- Andrea Pozzo: Perspectivae pictorum atque architectorum / The Mahler and Master Builder Perspectiv , Augsburg edition 1709
- Perspectiva pictorum atque architectorum (1709)
- Andrea Pozzo in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Biography, with catalog raisonné Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pozzo, Andrea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pozzi, Andrea; Puteus, Andrea; Puteo, Andreas de; Puteo, Andrea de; Pozzo, Andreas; Puteus, Andreas; Puteius, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter and art writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1642 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trent |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1709 |
| Place of death | Vienna |