Giovanni Battista di Quadro
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Giovanni Battista di Quadro (* 1510 in Lugano or Cadro ?, Ticino , Switzerland ; † April 10, 1590 or January 16, 1591 in Posen , Kingdom of Poland ) was a Swiss-born Polish architect of the Renaissance .
Life
Di Quadro worked with his three brothers most likely in Saxony and Silesia until 1550 . On March 13, 1550 he signed a contract with the Poznan City Council for the reconstruction of the Poznan City Hall , which was completed by 1560. From 1552 to 1562 he was the city architect of Poznan, but he was also paid for by the city in 1563, 1566 and 1567, as well as in 1570 for smaller orders.
Di Quadro worked for the citizens of Poznan from the mid-1550s, as well as for the clergy and the nobility of Greater Poland . From 1568 to 1572 he was entrusted with the construction of the Warsaw Royal Castle . His varied duties were well paid and made him wealthy. However, he died in Poznan as a man in debt. His brothers Antoni, Gabriel and Kilian also worked in Poznan in the early 1550s.
GB di Quadros's wife Barbara Sztametówna died in 1603.
buildings
- 1550 to 1560: Poznan City Hall.
- Tomb of Bishop Adam Konarski in the Poznan Cathedral .
- 1563: Reconstruction of the city scales in Poznan. This was overhauled in 1573 and demolished in 1890. After the Second World War, rebuilt according to the original plans di Quadros.
- 1568 to 1572: rebuilding of the Warsaw Castle. A reproduction was made again after the Second World War.
- since 1568: houses on Plac Kolegiacki in Poznan. In the years 1958–1960 probably rebuilt according to di Quadros plans.
- 1571 to 1574: House of the priests of the Stanislaus Church in Poznan on Ulica Za Bramka. No longer exists.
- Various houses on the Old Market in Poznan from the years 1554 to 1579 no longer exist.
- Renovation of the tower of the no longer existing collegiate church.
- 1572: Jesuit College in Posen .
- Shear hall and cloth hall, as well as the trading hall from 1563.
Aftermath
- The city of Poznan awards the Giovanni Battista di Quadro Prize for Architecture . The 2013 award winner was the architect Wojtek Grabianowski .
literature
- Carl Brun : Quadro, Giovanni Battista de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 3 f.
- Ilario Borelli: Giovanni Battista Quadri. In: Cadro con Stampa e Dassone "comuni" scomparsi. Tipografia Gaggini-Bizzozero SA, Lugano 1987, p. 18.
- Mariusz Karpowicz: Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nel '500. Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1987, pp. 97-130, (with bibliography).
- Mariusz Smoliński: Giovanni Battista Quadro. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2012-01-13 , accessed February 13, 2020 .
Web links
- Giovanni Battista Quadro on oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/
Individual evidence
- ↑ Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Curio, Gaggini-Bizzozero 2002, p. 197.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | di Quadro, Giovanni Battista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-born Polish architect of the Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1510 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugano or Cadro , Ticino , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1590 or January 16, 1591 |
| Place of death | Poznan , Kingdom of Poland |