Giacomo Amato

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Giacomo Amato (* 14. May 1643 in Palermo ; † 26. December 1732 ibid ) was an architect of the late Baroque in Rome and Sicily .

Giacomo Amato

Life

Amato joined the Camillian Order at a young age , which is particularly dedicated to nursing. In 1671 he went to Rome to study architecture with Carlo Rainaldi . In Rome he was involved as an architect in the completion of the Santa Maria Maddalena , the mother church of the Camillians, begun by Carlo Fontana . Within the order he held the office of consultore generale for six years . According to the Sicilian Provincial A. Bertolini, Amato died in the smell of holiness, but an official trial was never opened.

In 1684 Amato returned to Palermo, where he was the first architect to consistently implement the Roman architectural style of Rainaldi and Fontana.

Works (all Palermo)

literature

  • Luigi Biagi: Giacomo Amato e la sua posizione nell'architettura palermitana. In: L'Arte. NS Vol. 10 = Vol. 42, 1939, ISSN  0004-3362 , pp. 29-48.
  • Silvestro L. Pozzebon (Ed.): Due Chiese Sorelle. Santa Teresa alla Kalsa. Santa Maria della Pietà. Tipografia Aiello, Palermo 1993.
  • Maria Serena Tusa: I disegni romani di Giacomo Amato. In: Il disegno d'architettura. Vol. 1, 1990, ISSN  1121-8770 , pp. 43-44.
  • M. Serena Tusa: Architettura barocca a Palermo. Prospetti chiesastici di Giacomo Amato architetto (= Barocco in Sicilia. Corpus architectonicum. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 2634265-0 ). Arnaldo Lombardi editore, Palermo et al. 1992.
  • Mario Vanti:  Amato, Giacomo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 2:  Albicante – Ammannati. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.

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personal data
SURNAME Amato, Giacomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaccarini
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1643
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1732
Place of death Palermo