Antonio Petrini

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The main gate of the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt
The main gate of the Mainz Citadel

Antonio Petrini (born December 4, 1631 in Caneggio , † April 8, 1701 in Würzburg ) was a Franconian master builder of Italian descent. Petrini combined Italian Baroque with German Renaissance and introduced the Franconian Baroque .

biography

For a long time it was assumed that Petrini was born in Trient / Calavino (Lasino) in 1621 . According to Ursula Stevens, however, he came from Ticino, born on December 4, 1631 in Caneggio . He belonged to a group of Italian builders who re-fortified cities and built churches and palaces. In his creative days Petrini, who is rooted in the Lombard building culture, worked on the building of many churches and for baroque architecture (e.g. by Balthasar Neumann ) pioneering secular buildings in Würzburg, where he came in 1660 (called from Mainz by Prince Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn in 1660), Franconia, Mainz and beyond with. His house with decorated corner bay window in Würzburg was destroyed in World War II.

Significant works

Juliusspital (north wing) in Würzburg
Haug Abbey in Würzburg

Others

The "Antonio Petrini Prize", the architecture prize of the city of Würzburg, commemorates the master builder and his importance for Würzburg and Franconia.

literature

  • Lili Götz: Antonio Petrini, a contribution to the history of baroque architecture in Franconia. Dissertation Frankfurt am Main 1923.
  • Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 616–620, 630 and 632 -634.
  • Lucia Longo: Antonio Petrini architetto (Calavino di Trento 1621 - Würzburg 1708). Trento 1974.
  • Lucia Longo: Antonio Petrini. A baroque architect in Franconia. (= Schnell & Steiner artist library ). Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7954-0374-X .
  • Lucia Longo Endres:  Petrini, Antonio. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 267 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Clemens Schenk: Petrini - Greissing. Building analysis studies on the Würzburg Baroque. Dissertation Würzburg 1920.
  • Hanswernfried Muth: Antonio Petrini. In: Franconia. Journal for Franconian regional studies and culture. Volume 51, 1999, pp. 243-250.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Stevens: The family relationships between the builders Petrini from Caneggio in Muggio Valley, Ticino, the painter Petrini from Carona, Ticino, and the builders Serro from Roveredo, Graubünden . In: Bollettino Genealogico della Svizzera Italiana , No. 12, December 2008
  2. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, pp. 616 f., 620 and 655.
  3. ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 2, Fränkische Gesellschaftdruckerei, Würzburg 1969, p. 84 ( Auverastraße [...] - Petrinistraße [...] ).
  4. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, pp. 624 and 632.
  5. ↑ Johannes Mack: The builder and architect Joseph Greissing. Main Franconian Baroque before Balthasar Neumann . In: Society for Franconian History (Hrsg.): Publications of the Society for Franconian History, VIII. Series. Sources and representations on Franconian art history . tape 16 . Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86652-816-1 , p. 132-136, 797 et al. a .
  6. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 632.
personal data
SURNAME Petrini, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franconian builder of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH Caneggio
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1701
Place of death Wurzburg