Giovanni Maria Aostalli

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Giovanni Maria Aostalli (also: Avostalli, Avostalo, Aostalli de Sala, Vostalis ; * after 1500 in Pambio or Savosa ; † before April 16, 1567, presumably in Prague ) was a builder from Ticino who mainly worked in Bohemia .

biography

Giovanni Maria Aostalli came from the Ticino architect family Aostalli . His father was Agostino Aostalli from Savosa, who lived in Pambio. He was the father of Agostino, a builder who was in the service of the Duke of Mantua in 1593 . According to a document dated March 20 this year, he and his colleagues from Lugano are said to have been entrusted with the fortification of Casale Monferrato .

Giovanni Maria was probably an employee of the architect and sculptor Paolo Stella . Together with the builder Giovanni Spazzio , he came to Bohemia before 1538 and initially worked as a bricklayer on the construction of the Belvedere at Prague Castle .

For October 1538 he is documented as a master who headed the mason group. In 1539 he brought his own construction team from Ticino to Prague, which also included his sons. In 1541 he was used on other building projects of the Prague Castle and the palaces of the Royal Chamber. From 1546 he probably stayed in Pambio for some time, where he is occupied as a representative of the "consul" for that year.

In 1548 he was back in Prague and worked with 37 masons on the construction sites of St. Vitus Cathedral , the royal hospital and the Belvedere.

Presumably, he and six employees, including his two sons, were committed to the construction of the residential palace in Dresden from 1552 to 1555 , where he created the portal of the palace chapel, dated 1555, with other forces, including the Dresden sculptor Hans Walther II . In the Saxon sources he was called the stonemason Johann Maria. Then he returned to Pag.

In 1555 he was probably involved in the construction of the Stern Summer Palace ( Letohrádek Hvězda ). In 1559, together with the stonemason Giovanni de Campione and the builder Giuseppe Soldati from Ponna , he made a cost estimate for the planned land law room at Prague Castle.

Giovanni Maria Aostalli owned a house and other properties on the Lesser Town . In 1562 he was retired. In 1567 Ulrico Aostalli took over the position of builder of the Prague Castle .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Aostalli. P. 393 (PDF biblio.unibe.ch accessed on September 30, 2019)
  2. ↑ Angelica Dülberg: The Great Castle Courtyard. Style, iconography and iconology of his sculptural and pictorial jewelry , in: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony (ed.): Das Residenzschloss zu Dresden, Vol. 2, The palace complex of the Renaissance and its early Baroque modifications and designs, Petersberg 2019, p. 205– 260, here on Aostalli especially pp. 229–231.
  3. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giovanni da Campione. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Aostalli, Giovanni Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Avostalis; Avostalli; Avostalo; Aostalli de Sala; Vostalis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian builder
DATE OF BIRTH after 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Pambio or Massagno
DATE OF DEATH before April 16, 1567
Place of death unsure: Prague