Giovanni Battista Lantana

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Giovanni Battista Lantana (* 1573 or 1581 in Brescia ; † February 26, 1627 there ) was an Italian architect.

biography

San Giorgio Church in Bagolino

The Lantana family from Brescia is on the list of the most prestigious citizens of 1517. His father Andrea lived in a house near San Benedetto. He may be a member of the family of Annibale Lantana, another architect who was called “above the wall” in 1604 and therefore worked with Giovanni Battista Lantana.

In 1603 Giovanni Battista Lantana, at the age of twenty, was faced with the difficult task of designing the new cathedral in Brescia. Another burden was that his professional activity was not limited to building the new cathedral.

Other known data:

  • March 1, 1602: Preparation of the “Misura et estimo della fabrica del Sacro Monte Di Pietà” report on behalf of the municipality. In all likelihood, the report served to clarify a claim for compensation for workers for higher costs incurred during the work.
  • August 1602: Some payments to the architect Lantana are documented, possibly for the expertise from the previous March.
  • 1604 - 1606 : In the church of Santa Maria della Carità in Via dei Musei, he carries out various surveys on the arrangement of works of art.
  • January 3, 1607 : he is responsible for the transport of building materials (73 wagons with stones and 486 bushels of mortar) to Piazza Delle Pescherie Nuove (today Piazza Della Vittoria), for the construction of some buildings and then for use on other public construction sites.
  • ?: on an unknown date, at the time of acquisition by Bishop Aurelio Averoldi, Bishop of Castellaneta , he carried out an appraisal of the Chizzola building (Contrada S. Croce, today Via Moretto 12).

From 1624 until his death he worked on the construction of the Church of San Giorgio in Bagolino , the construction of which was completed in 1632 and whose completion he would never see.

In 1625 he worked on the construction of a fortress in Tirano on behalf of the Venetian and French military commanders . In June 1626 he returned to his homeland and died there on February 26, 1627.

Giovanni Battista Lantana was assigned a plan of the Broletto building (for the graphic characters) that is kept in the State Archives of Brescia.

The parish church of San Faustino in Sarezzo is attributed to Lantana. The church, with 17th century architecture, is a reconstruction of an earlier building described by Bishop Dolfin during a pastoral visit in 1528. Unfortunately, to date no documented data are known that can confirm that the Church is the work of Lantana.

The new cathedral

On May 24, 1603, the municipality commissioned the carver Giò Battista Lancini to create a wooden model "based on a design by the engineer Giovanni Battista Lantana".

The model was examined by the Milanese architects Lelio Buzzo and Pier Maria Bagnadore, who suggested some improvements, but found Lantana's design to be “Good Church Architecture”.

The difficulties with the work and the long time until completion, as well as the site management under different architects, led to considerable deviations from the first draft.

Giovanni Battista Lantana was appointed on February 9, 1613 by the deputies for the buildings and churches of the city to the "Chancellor of the cathedral building", with a salary of 260 planets .

The hope was that construction could continue quickly and without too many and constant changes. This hope was obviously disappointed and it can be assumed that Lantana had to "swallow toads".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d le muse . tape VI . De Agostini, Novara 1964, pp. 355 (Italian).
  2. ↑ a b c Lantana Giovanni Battista ( it ) Retrieved December 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lantana, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1573 or 1581
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1627
Place of death Brescia