Giacomo del Duca

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Giacomo del Duca called Jacopo del Duca (* 1520 in Cefalù ; † 1604 in Messina ) was an Italian architect and sculptor . He was a student of Michelangelo in Rome.

Giacomo del Duca: Capella del Sacramento del Duomo di Messina

In 1588 Giacomo returned to Messina, where he was appointed city architect of Messina in 1589.

  • Works in Rome: Giacomo built the dome, the tambour and the lantern of the Maria di Loreto church, which Antonio da Sangallo had designed, in 1573–76.
  • Works in his hometown Messina (according to Thieme-Becker): In 1599 he completed the (according to old reports very splendid) sea facade of the “Loggia dei Mercanti” on the Messínas waterfront. There was a stone with the following inscription in Latin: “ Ut mercatorum utilitati civium ornamento regiae urbis Messanae regni protometropolis dignitati consuleretur… ” Badly damaged by the 1783 earthquake, the building was demolished in 1810. The rear part of the facade of the Church of San Giovanni di Malta, 1592, is said to come from Giacomo, as well as the Capella del Sacramento in the cathedral in Messina with an octagonal tabernacle on the altar. As an architect, Duca is important for the development of Roman architecture, as he is considered the strangest and most independent student of Michelangelo.

Peter Murray describes Giacomo in The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, p. 162, image no. 158: "... which continues the bizarre side of the Michelangelo style ..."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Pollak : Duca, Giacomo del (also Jacopo Siciliano or Ciciliano) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 21–22 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Duca, Giacomo del
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duca, Jacopo del; Siciliano, Jacopo; Ciciliano, Jacopo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Cefalù
DATE OF DEATH 1604
Place of death Messina