Gerolamo Staffieri

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Gerolamo Staffieri's stucco decoration in the presbytery of the Church of San Maurizio in Bioggio

Gerolamo Staffieri (born September 28, 1785 in Bioggio , † September 11, 1837 in New Orleans ) was a Swiss plasterer and sculptor .

Life

Staffieri was the son of Giovanni Battista Staffieri (1749-1808), plasterer, sculptor, and Teresa Andreoli. He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan under Giocondo Albertolli (1742–1839) from Bedano .

Works

In 1813 Staffieri created stucco work in the Camera dei candelabri in the Palazzo Te in Mantua , the neoclassical decoration in the Camera delle cariatidi in the Palazzo Ducale and other stucco work in the Camerino a crociera .

In Parma he worked from 1815 in the Basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata and in the former Palazzo Ducale. From 1819 he was in Mantua, where he designed the entire stucco decoration of the Teatro sociale (former Teatro Nuovo), designed by the architect Luigi Canonica .

In the parish church of San Maurizio di Bioggio in 1820, Staffieri created stucco work in the absis, together with Giovanni Battista Soldati; since 1830 his stucco work The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan has been in the baptistery; small mythological stucco work can be found in the Staffieri house in Bioggio. On May 21, 1837 he emigrated to Louisiana and lived in New Orleans, where he died on September 11, 1839 in the parish of Saint Charles.

literature

  • Virgilio Chiesa : Lineamenti storici del Malcantone, Arti Grafiche Gaggini e Bizzozero, Lugano-Mendrisio 1961; Idem: Valori antichi e nuovi del Ticino: Bioggio-Chiesa parrocchiale di San Maurizio e Soci martiri , in: Rivista Silva, no.87, November 27, 1965.
  • Antonio Galli , Angelo Tamburini: Guida storica del Malcantone e della Bassa Valle del Vedeggio, Editore Traversa, Lugano-Mendrisio 1911.
  • Luigi Simona : Arte dello stucco nel Canton Ticino, Part II-Il Sottoceneri, Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1949; Idem: Artisti: Staffieri di Bioggio ed altri artisti, in: Corriere del Ticino, No. 122, Lugano 26 maggio 1944; Idem: Artisti Staffieri di Bioggio ed altri artisti, in: Il Paese, No. 48, 6 giugno 1944.
  • Giovanni Maria Staffieri : Bioggio: profilo storico, in: Almanacco Malcantonese 1970, La Malcantonese, Agno 1969, pp. 34-37; Idem: Un artista ticinese del secolo scorso: Gerolamo Staffieri, stuccatore, da Bioggio, in: Bollettino Storico della Svizzera Italiana, Vol.LXXXII, fasc. I, Ed. Salvioni, Bellinzona, pp. 10-16.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Staffieri. in: Dictionnaire Historique et Biographique de la Suisse, vol. VI, Attinger Verlag, Neuchâtel 1933, p. 314.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Luigi Simona: Arte dello stucco nel Canton Ticino, Parte II-Il Sottoceneri, Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1949, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Staffieri , in: Dictionnaire Historique et Biographique de la Suisse, vol. VI, Ed. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1933, p. 314.
  3. ↑ L'an mil-huit-cent-uente-sept, l'onze de septembre, moi soussigné ai inhumé le corps de Jerome Staffieri, né en Suisse - Canton de Tassin, agé de cinquante deux ans, decedé le jourd'hui dans la Paroisse St. Charles: en foi de quoi j'ai signed L. Van Bolkel
personal data
SURNAME Staffieri, Gerolamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss plasterer and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Bioggio
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1837
Place of death New Orleans