Francesco Milizia

Francesco Milizia (born November 15, 1725 in Oria , † March 7, 1798 in Rome ) was an Italian architect and theoretician of classicism .

Milizia studied in Padua, Rome and Naples. After a stay in France, he came back to Rome in 1761 and came under the influence of the Spanish ambassador and art patron José Nicolás de Azara . In this context he was appointed superintendent of the Farnese possessions in the Papal States by King Ferdinand IV of Naples at a time not known in detail . Influenced by these impressions, he studied the history of architecture and began his theoretical work on architecture. After the architects' vitae of 1768, he published his second major work in 1781, the principles of bourgeois architecture. A year later he retired from the office of superintendent to devote himself entirely to writing, and in 1787 published his Lexicon of Fine Arts, a work that was probably influenced by the French encyclopedists.

Works

• Le vite de 'più celebri architetti d'ogni nazione e d'ogni tempo precedute da un saggio sopra l'architettura. Rome: Stamparia di Paolo Giunchi Komarek; a spese di Venanzio Monaldini libraro 1768 (German: biographies of the most famous architects of all nations and times )
• Memorie di architetti antichi e moderni (German: memories of ancient and modern architects )
• Principj di architettura civile. 3 volumes. Bassano: A spese Remondini di Venezia, 1781

  (German: principles of bourgeois architecture in three parts: from the Italian. Leipzig: Schwickert 1784-1786)

• Dell'arte di vedere nelle belle arti del disegno secondo i principii di Sulzer e di Mengs. Venezia: Presso G. Pasquali, 1781
• Roma delle belle arti del disegno. Part great. Dell'architettura civile. Bassano: [G. Remondini], 1787
• Dizionario delle belle arti del disegno, estratto in gran parte dalla Enciclopedia metodica. 2 volumes. Bassano, 1797. (German: Lexicon of Fine Drawing Arts )

literature

• Tommaso Manfredi:  Militia, Francesco. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 74:  Messi – Miraglia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2010.
• Alexander Grönert: Francesco Milizia (1725–1798). In: Bernd Evers (ed.): Theory of architecture: From the Renaissance to the present , Cologne: Taschen Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-82285082-9
• Lee Sorensen: Milizia, Francesco. In: Dictionary of Art Historians. Accessed December 31, 2018 . 

Web links

• Publications by Francesco Milizia in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
• Standard entry in the Opac of the SBN