Andrea Spezza

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Letter from Wallenstein to the governor of Friedland regarding the continued payment of the remuneration of his deceased master builder Andrea Spezza to his sons from 1628.

Andrea Spezza (* before 1580 in Arogno ; † before March 29, 1628 in Jičín ) was an Italian builder who was best known for his services for the imperial generalissimo Wallenstein .

life and work

Spezza, who came from Arogno in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, was the son of Giovanni [Spezza]. He had attended a Lombard architecture school and worked in Germany for the Princes of Oldenburg from 1602 to 1610. Among other things, he worked in 1609 and 1615 as the successor to Georg Reinhardt as the lead architect for the expansion and decoration of the Oldenburg Palace . He went to Prague , where he and his brothers organized parties for Emperor Matthias in 1616 . From 1610 he was also employed in Poland on behalf of the Lubomirski family and in 1617 he built the Camaldolese Church in Bielany . From 1615 to 1621 he directed the construction of a new castle, from 1618 to 1621 he built a parish church and in 1621 began planning work for the Carmelite Church in Wiśnicz Nowy. From 1623 he was in the service of Albrecht von Wallenstein in Bohemia and began - probably according to his own design - work on the Waldstein Palace in Prague, which was completed in 1630. From 1627 he was involved in the construction of the Carthusian monastery Valdice , or Walditz .

In addition to the builders Giovanni Pieroni and Niccoló Sebregondi, he was also involved in the construction of the Waldstein Castle , an extensive early Baroque complex with three arcade courtyards in the Bohemian town of Jičín , or Gitschin , which Wallenstein had expanded into a center of his duchy Friedland .

family

Spezza was married twice:

  • before 1603 he married Elisabetta (née Bagutti)
  • then he was married to Elisabetta (nee Mazzetti), a daughter of Giacomo Mazzetti.

Spezza had at least two sons Antonio and Pietro Spezza, who also worked as builders, including at Palais Waldstein.

He does not belong to the master builder and sculptor family Spazzi from Lanzo d'Intelvi , who were involved in many church and secular building projects in Austria and Bohemia from the 16th to the 18th century.

literature

Remarks

  1. a b Transcription: Wallenstein to the Governor of the Duchy of Friedland [ Wikisource ]
  2. ^ Spaz (Spacio, ... Spezza etc.), Andrea . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 338 (deviating presumably wrongly transmitted before January 29th ).
  3. a b Mariusz Smoliński: Andrea Spezza. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. (As of June 25, 2013: hls-dhs-dss.ch ).
  4. ^ Albert Erich Brinckmann, Martin Wackernagel: Castle buildings Wallenstein . In: The architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries… Volume 2 : … in the Germanic countries . Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion mbh, Berlin-Neubabelsberg 1915, p. 75 and 106 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. Spezza, Andrea . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 4 : Raab – Vezzo . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 317 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).