Giovanni Antonio De Rossi

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Giovanni Antonio De Rossi (born January 8, 1616 in Rome , † October 9, 1695 ibid) was an Italian architect.

Life

Giovanni was born in Rome as the son of a stonemason. He studied at the Collegio Romano and continued his training in the workshop of the architect Francesco Peparelli , where he perfected his architectural skills by working on the design and construction of important buildings. After his death he inherited numerous commissions.

In 1636 he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca . His first work carried out was the construction of the Church of Santa Maria della Cima in Genzano (1636-1650) and then various works for the Santacroce family in Rome, such as the Church of Santa Maria in Publicolis and for the four largest hospitals in Rome. Between 1650 and 1660 he realized the Palazzo Altieri for Cardinal Giovanni Battista Altieri and the Palazzo d'Aste. These structures made De Rossi famous.

In the course of time he also held public offices: under Pope Innocent X as a surveyor for the Apostolic Chamber (1644–1655, together with Carlo Rainaldi ) and as superintendent of the Papal Palaces (1671–1687, in collaboration with Gian Lorenzo Bernini ). The diversity of his assignments and their time span meant that he used employees to control the various places that he had to manage at the same time and, in return, to work with other famous artists.

The collaboration with Rainaldi related to the work in the Vatican and Castel Sant'Angelo then on the restoration of the city ​​walls of Rome from Porta Portuensis to Porta San Pancrazio , with Bernini taking care of the restoration and maintenance of the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo and the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano took care of it. Most recently, he was commissioned in 1695 in a commission with the architects Carlo Fontana and Mattia De Rossi to assess the plans for a chapel in the church Il Gesù .

Works in Rome

Villa Carpegna

Works outside Rome

Palazzo Carpegna in Carpegna

literature

  • Gianfranco Spagnesi: Giovanni Antonio De Rossi. Architetto Romano . Officina, Rome 1964.
  • Maria Assunta Bardaro Grella:  De Rossi Giovanni Antonio. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 39:  Deodato-DiFalco. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1991.
  • Vittorio Sgarbi: Roma: dal Rinascimento ai nostri giorni . Bompiani, Milan 1991.

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Antonio De Rossi  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Assunta Bardaro Grella:  Giovanni Antonio De Rossi. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
personal data
SURNAME Rossi, Giovanni Antonio De
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1695
Place of death Rome