Antonio Maria Viani

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Antonio Maria Viani: Sacrifice of the Old Covenant (or Holy Trinity ), 1588–89, St. Michael , Munich

Antonio Maria Viani , called Vianino (* approx. 1555 - 1560 in Cremona , † 1629 in Mantua ) was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerism in the transition to the early Baroque . In Munich he was also known under the name Viviani .

Life

In Cremona he was a student of Giulio Campi . A signed and dated early work by Viani is his Madonna and Child (also: Santa Maria di Portici ) from 1582 for the Church of San Domenico in Cremona.

From 1586 to 1592 he worked in Munich at the Wilhelm V court under Friedrich Sustris and Peter Candid (Peter de Witte) in the Antiquarium and in the grotto hall of the Residenz . Viani was also Sustris' son-in-law, he married his daughter Livia. For the Jesuit Church of St. Michael in Munich, he painted the altarpieces Sacrifice of the Old Covenant (or Holy Trinity ), Sacrifice of the New Covenant (or veneration of the name of Jesus ) and possibly also the very different handover of keys to Peter (1587; only attributed).

In 1592 Vincenzo I Gonzaga called him to Mantua and later appointed him “Prefect of the state building sites” (“ prefetto delle fabbriche di stato ”). As a scenographer, Viani also created sets for plays and operas.

Anton Maria Viani and workshop: Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus , ca.1618, Sala degli specchi, Palazzo Ducale , Mantua

Various paintings by Viani are in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua and in the Church of Sant'Andrea . His main pictorial works include the dome fresco of the Last Judgment in the church of San Pietro del Po in Cremona and, very likely, the vault frescoes in the apse of the cathedral in Mantua , which were long considered the work of Domenico Fetti .

Viani also worked for Maurizio di Savoia , who in 1622 commissioned an altarpiece of the Archangel Michael for the abbey church of the Sacra di San Michele in the Susa Valley .

Antonio Maria Viani worked as an architect for decades at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua and built, according to plans by Leon Battista Alberti , the transept , choir and crypt of the Church of Sant'Andrea (1597–1600). Other major architectural works by Viani are the church and convent of Sant'Orsola in Mantua (1608), as well as the Villa Ducale in Maderno on Lake Garda (1603).

At the end of the 20th century, an extensive inventory of Viani's drawings was discovered in the Clary-Aldringen collection in Bohemia .

literature

  • Paolo Bertelli: Un importante restauro nel duomo di Mantova - Antonio Maria Viani torna a risplendere , in: La Reggia - giornale della società del Palazzo Ducale , Anno V, No. 2, April 1997, online at Academia (Italian; accessed 11. April 2020)
  • Giovanni Coppadoro: Antonio Maria Viani e la facciata di Palazzo Guerrieri a Mantova , Alinea Editrice, 2010, online as Google Book (Italian, viewed April 13, 2020)
  • Giulio Girondi: Antonio Maria Viani architetto , Il Rio Arte, Mantua, 2013 (Italian)
  • Stefano L'Occaso: Alcune Proposte per Antonio Maria Viani e una "Quadratura" in Palazzo Arrigoni , in: Arte: Pittura del Seicento , pp. 119-139, online on Academia (Italian, viewed April 13, 2020)
  • K. Wagner & A. Keller: St. Michael in Munich , Munich / Zurich 1983
  • Martin Zlatohlávek: Antonio Maria Viani, his training and maturity in Munich , in: Barockberichte 20/21 , lecture on the exhibition in the Museo Civico al Ponzone, Cremona, September 27, 1997–11. January 1998, digitized (viewed April 13, 2020)

Web links

Commons : Antonio Maria Viani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Viani, Antonio Maria, detto Vianino , short biography on "Treccani" (Italian, seen April 13, 2020)
  • Biography and works of Viani, Antonio Maria , on arcadja.com (Italian), seen April 13, 2020
  • San Michele Arcangelo, di Antonio Maria Viani , on the Sacra San Michele AVosacra website (Italian, viewed April 13, 2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Viani, Antonio Maria, detto Vianino , in “Treccani” (Italian), as seen on April 13, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Martin Zlatohlávek: Antonio Maria Viani, his training and maturity in Munich , in: Baroque reports 20/21 , lecture on the exhibition at the Museo Civico al Ponzone, Cremona, September 27, 1997-11. January 1998, digitized , p. 170
  3. ↑ a b c Martin Zlatohlávek: Antonio Maria Viani, his training and maturity in Munich , in: Baroque reports 20/21 , lecture on the exhibition at the Museo Civico al Ponzone, Cremona, September 27, 1997-11. January 1998, digitized , p. 169
  4. ↑ a b c Viani, Antonio Maria , on arcadja.com (Italian), viewed April 13, 2020
  5. ↑ a b Giovanni Coppadoro: Antonio Maria Viani e la facciata di Palazzo Guerrieri a Mantova , Alinea Editrice, 2010, excerpts online as Google Book , page 60, footnote 40
  6. ↑ Martin Zlatohlávek: Antonio Maria Viani, his training and maturity in Munich , in: Baroque reports 20/21 , lecture on the exhibition at the Museo Civico al Ponzone, Cremona, September 27, 1997-11. January 1998, digitized , p. 173
  7. ↑ Martin Zlatohlávek: Antonio Maria Viani, his training and maturity in Munich , in: Baroque reports 20/21 , lecture on the exhibition at the Museo Civico al Ponzone, Cremona, September 27, 1997-11. January 1998, digitized , p. 172
  8. ↑ Martin Zlatohlávek: Antonio Maria Viani, his training and maturity in Munich , in: Baroque reports 20/21 , lecture on the exhibition at the Museo Civico al Ponzone, Cremona, September 27, 1997-11. January 1998, digitized , p. 174
  9. ↑ Paolo Bertelli: Un importante restauro nel duomo di Mantova - Antonio Maria Viani torna a risplendere , in: La Reggia - giornale della società del Palazzo Ducale , Anno V, No. 2, April 1997, online at Academia (Italian; accessed 11 April 2020)
  10. ↑ Fetti (also Feti), Domenico , in: Lexikon der Kunst , Vol. 4, Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen, 1994, pp. 259 and 260
  11. ↑ Studio Calzolari: Affresco - Apoteosi della Redenzione - Domenico Fetti - Mantova - Duomo - Abside - Volta , [www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/fotografie/schede-complete/IMM-2s010-0000092 Download] (Italian; accessed April 11, 2020 )
  12. ↑ Giovanni Pasetti: Una mescolanza di stile , article on the cathedral of Mantua, online (Italian; accessed April 11, 2020)
  13. ↑ San Michele Arcangelo, di Antonio Maria Viani , on the Sacra San Michele AVoSacra website (Italian, viewed April 13, 2020)
  14. ↑ Advertisement on the libroco.it website (Italian, viewed April 13, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Viani, Antonio Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vianino; Viviani, Antonio Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, architect and scenographer
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: between 1555 and 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Cremona
DATE OF DEATH 1629
Place of death Mantua