Elias Payos

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Stonemason's bill by Elias Payos, 1587
New building, engraving by Delsenbach, detail

Elias Payos (also Paiosc, * in Monte Magre in the Schio district , Vicenza province , Italy ; † around 1590 in Kaisersteinbruch , then western Hungary , now Burgenland ) was an Italian master stonemason and sculptor of the Renaissance .

Brother of Alexius Payos . His father came from Valli del Pasubio near Monte Magre. An interesting story: there is a settlement there called Paiosa with a few inhabitants of the same name, and there was a quarry nearby.

Life

The stonemason Elias Payos came to the country with his landlady around 1570 and afterwards settled at Rodaun . In the local quarry he became a master , he lived in the same house with Augustin Rigobello , a stonemason from his Italian hometown. He lived there for about twelve years, after which he moved to the imperial quarry near Winden am See . In this quarry, the venerable in God spiritual Lord Prelate von Heiligenkreuz was the landlord .

Working group at Castle Neugebauten

Master stonemasons Bartholomäus Pethan and Antonius Pozzo , as well as Elias Payos and Augustin Rigobello, also moved from the Rodauner quarry to the kayserl. Quarry. During these years, the stonemasonry work with the hard imperial stone was concentrated on the large-scale orders for Castle Neugebauten .

Stone carvings in the Heiligenkreuzer Hof in Vienna and the Trumau Church

The brothers Alexius and Elias Payos worked together for the church in Trumau and the Heiligenkreuzerhof in Vienna. All invoices were presented to the Heiligenkreuz abbot Johannes Rueff on October 5th, 1587 .

Excerpt, see illustration: List of what I, Master Elias Payos, Steinmetz am Leydenberg .. gave for stone work in the church in Trumau ..

First of all I gave records .. 112 fl
I gave more season .. 11 fl 22 kr
I gave more to the big altar .. 13 fl 40 kr ..
I gave more to the Daiffstein .. 30 fl
more I gave the sacrament house .. 18 fl

death

Elias Payos lived and worked here for 8 years, but afterwards was challenged by this vale of misery due to temporal death. This results in the year 1590.

literature

  • Paolo Snichelotto: Monte Magre nella storia, Alessio q. Antonio Paioso, Rigobello .
  • Letter from the Schio municipal library to Eva Pelnöcker (†) in Sommerein : Migrant workers from the Schio district .
  • Heiligenkreuz Abbey archive: register, stonemason invoices .
  • Alexius, Elias and Ulrich Payos. Three Italian stonecutters from Leithaberg from the early days of the quarry . In: Helmuth Furch : Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch No. 27, 1993, pp. 12-21. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
  • Payos Alexius, Elias and Ulrich , Helmuth Furch: Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. S 582, Museum and Culture Association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive Stift Heiligenkreuz: Invoice to the revered Abbot Johann zum Heiligen Kreuz, .. Stone work in the churches in Drommau, in the Heylligen Creutz towards Vienna , rubr. 51 / IV / 14
personal data
SURNAME Payos, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian master stonemason of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Monte Magre in the district of Schio , Province of Vicenza , Italy
DATE OF DEATH around 1590
Place of death Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary , now Burgenland