Giovanni Donadio (architect)

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Giovanni Donadio (* around 1450 in Mormanno ; † in the 16th century in Naples ) was an Italian organ builder , architect and painter.

Life and works

Giovanni Donadio may have been a pupil of Giuliano da Maiano ; his work shows Florentine influences.

After his place of birth he was usually called "Mormanno" or "Morimanno" or "Mormando". His student and son-in-law Giovan Francesco di Palma Mormanno later took this name from him. Mormanno was active in Naples from around 1483; he is considered to be one of the main masters of the city's Renaissance architecture .

He built and decorated organs for the churches of Trani , Serino and Castelnuovo. The organ for S. Spirito in Sulmona was built in 1497, and the following year he created an organ for the Church of S. Croce in Lecce . He built another organ in 1503 for S. Maddalena in Naples. This was followed in 1504 by an organ for S. Marco in Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi and again in 1505 by an organ for a Neapolitan church, S. Eligio. His organ for S. Francesco in Montella near Avellino came from 1517 , and two years later he built another organ for SS. Annunziata in Aversa .

In the Dizionario biografico his influence on the following organ builders is appreciated: "Alla luce delle più recenti acquisizioni sulla storia organaria italiana il D. si conferma dunque personalità di spicco a cui fecero riferimento numerosi artisti di area napoletana, quali Giovan Francesco Di Palma [... ], Nicola de Rosa , Andrea Scoppa , Luca Boye e Pompeo de Franco [...] "

As an architect he worked mainly in Naples; In 1513, when he was granted Neapolitan citizenship, his “singulares virtutes et excellentiam” were praised.

In the years 1512/13 a palazzo was built, at that time the Palazzo De Capua conti di Altavilla. In 1519 the church of S. Maria della Stella was built in Via delle Paparelle. At the time of Thieme-Becker , the courtyard across from the monastery of s. Gregorio received, as well as the plinth and the first floor of a palazzo that he had built for the Sangro duchi di Vietri. Numerous other structures had already been destroyed or rebuilt when the lexicon was written. These included the Palazzo Acquaviva duchi di Atri from 1509 to 1514, as well as the Palazzi Raymo (1511), Carafa (1513), Diaz Carlon conti di Alite from the years 1515/16, the Catanzaro Cathedral, built in 1513, and a wing of the Church of S. Domenico Maggiore in Naples from 1516.

Mormanno had a daughter named Diana who married Giovan Francesco di Palma Mormanno in 1526. At this point Mormanno was still alive; but he must have died a little later. It is unclear whether Mormanno was related to the architect Andrea Mormanno , who was active at least until 1572.

Honors

A stone was laid in Piazza Umberto I in Mormanno, on which the dates of the architect's life are given. There the year of birth is 1455 and the year of death 1525.

In 1995 a two-day symposium on Mormanno was held in the city of his birth.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pier Paolo Donati:  Donadio, Giovanni, detto il Mormanno. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 40:  DiFausto – Donadoni. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1991.
  2. ^ Gianfranco Oliva: Maestro Giovanni Donadio. In: Faronotizie IV, No. 47, April 2010, p. 2 (PDF, faronotizie.it ). On the following pages, Oliva explains how numerous mix-ups with other people, different names and incorrect biographies of the organ builder and architect came about. The work ends with a listing of all organs ascribed to Mormanno.
  3. ↑ Giovanni Donadio , on comune.mormanno.cs.it
  4. ^ Gianfranco Oliva, Maestro Giovanni Donadio . In: Faronotizie IV, No. 47, April 2010, p. 10 (PDF, faronotizie.it )
personal data
SURNAME Donadio, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mormanno; Mormando; Normando; Donadio, Giovanni Francesco; Donadio detto Mormanno, Giovanni; Mormanno, Johann-Donadio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian organ builder and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Mormanno
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century
Place of death Naples