Filippo da Fiesole

Filippo da Fiesole (Polish: Filip z Fiesole * around 1500 in Fiesole ; † after 1540 probably in Krakow ) was an architect , sculptor and stonemason of the Renaissance . Fiesole belonged to the third generation of Italian Renaissance artists who worked at the Kraków royal court.

Life

Filippo da Fiesole was born in Fiesole around 1500 . He came to Krakow before 1530 at the behest of King Sigismund the Elder . Here he entered the workshop of the Florentine artist Bartolomeo Berrecci , where he worked on the Sigmund Chapel in the Wawel Cathedral until 1531 . In 1531 he went into business for himself and, together with other Berrecci colleagues, Bernardino Zanobi de Gianotis and Giovanni Cini , founded an artists' society that campaigned for commissions together. From 1531 to 1535 he rebuilt the Płock Cathedral and then the Vilnius Cathedral in the Renaissance style.

Create

From the works of Filippo da Fiesole have survived:

• Dome of the Płock Cathedral
• Villa Decius in Krakow
• Renaissance altar of the Wawel Cathedral, today in the Stansilauskirche in Bodzentyn
• The figures of St. John the Baptist, St. Vaclav and St. Florian in the Sigismund Chapel of Wawel Cathedral

Works

Plock Cathedral

Villa Decius

Wawel altar

Sigismund chapel with figures of saints

literature

• Marius Karpowicz:  FILIPPO da Fiesole. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 47:  Ferrero-Filonardi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1997.
• Stanisław Mossakowski: King Sigismund Chapel at the Cracow Cathedral (1515-1533). Krakow 2012.
• Michał Rożek, Krakowska katedra na Wawelu. Wydawnictwo św. Stanisława BM Archidiecezji Krakowskiej. Kraków 1989