Cristoforo Benedetti

Anna column in Innsbruck (1704–1706)
by Cristoforo Benedetti

Cristoforo Benedetti (* beginning of 1657 in Castione , Trentino , † 29. April 1740 in Castione) was an Italian sculptor , stonemason and architect of the baroque , predominantly in Tyrol worked.

Life

Cristoforo Benedetti was a student of his father Giacomo Benedetti. He worked with his older brother Sebastiano Benedetti. The brothers were very active artistically and commercially and successfully expanded their father's workshop. They also organized the marble quarrying on Monte Giovo near Castione and owned several quarries there.

Cristoforo Benedetti married Antonia Inzigneri in 1693, with whom he had six children. He handed the workshop over to his son Teodoro Benedetti (1697–1783) while he was still alive. He died in Castione at the age of 83.

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Cristoforo was undoubtedly the most important personality of the Benedetti family of artists, although the individual artists in his workshop cannot always be assigned to the works of art. In addition to the family members, Dominikus Moling and the brothers Domenico and Antonio Giuseppe Sartori also worked in his area.

In his art, influences from northern Italy can be demonstrated, but also the introduction of the Roman high baroque altar in Tyrol. Above all, he created numerous altars for churches in the Italian and German-speaking areas of Tyrol, but also chapels, portals, statues, capitals, putti, drapery, urns and coats of arms.

• Altar , Teutonic Order Chapel, Siebeneich (1700)
• Anna column , Innsbruck (1704–1706)
• High Altar , Hospital Church , Innsbruck (1705)
• High altar and six side altars, St. Jakob parish church , Innsbruck (1724–1732)
• Johannes Nepomuk altar , parish church, Hall in Tirol (1734)

Further works by Benedetti are u. a. in Ala , Pressano , Villa Lagarina , Trient , Dietenheim , Arco , Avio , Brixen , Neustift bei Brixen , Borgo Valsugana , Limone , Verona , Trens and Rovereto .

literature

• Benedetti, Cristoforo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 4 f.
• Gertrud Pfaundler-Spat: Tyrol Lexicon . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 978-3-7065-4210-4 , p. 45.

Web links

Commons : Cristoforo Benedetti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry about Cristoforo Benedetti on Artisti Italiani in Austria , a project of the University of Innsbruck