Antonio Porta (architect)

Antonio Porta (* around 1631 in Manno near Lugano ; † August 3, 1702 in Bayreuth , buried as "Italus artifex") was a Swiss builder , architect and contractor.

Life and works

In addition to the new castle in Neustadt an der Waldnaab , he created buildings in Bohemia , Silesia and Northern Bavaria . From 1662 he was the master builder of the Grafenegg estate near Wagram , from 1668 to Prince Wenzel Eusebius von Lobkowicz , who gave him the portraits of members of the Princely House kept in the house of Porta Manno . Porta was involved in the construction of the Lobkowicz castles in Sagan and Raudnitz . The pilgrimage church of St. Quirin in Püchersreuth was built according to his plans in 1678 .

In 1697 he was appointed to Bayreuth by Margrave Christian Ernst . From 1698 he fundamentally rebuilt the collegiate church (today parish church) of the Himmelkron monastery . In 1700, together with Jacques Bourdin de la Fond, he designed plans for the castle of Margrave Friedrich in Erlangen . In the same year, the Baroque transformation of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. James in Creußen took place under his leadership .

He donated his fortune for pious works, as well as for young people from Manno who wanted to study art in Rome

literature

Katja Bigger: La Casa Porta a Manno. In art + architecture. No. 55, Issue 2, Bern 2004, pp. 74–77.
Lara Calderari: Antonio Porta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 17, 2016 , accessed March 14, 2020 .

Web links

Antonio della Porta on deacademic.com/dic.nsf/

Individual evidence

↑ Celestino Trezzini : Antonio Porta. P. 469, (PDF) In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, ( digitized version accessed on September 25, 2017).

personal data
SURNAME	Porta, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Italus artifex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss builder, architect and contractor
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manno near Lugano
DATE OF DEATH	August 3, 1702
Place of death	Bayreuth

[1] Celestino Trezzini : Antonio Porta. P. 469, (PDF) In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, ( digitized version accessed on September 25, 2017).