Giovanni da Nola

Giovanni da Nola , also Giovanni Merliano, Meriliano, Mirgiliano, Miriliano, Mariliano (* around 1488 in Mirgiliano near Nola ; † 1558 in Naples ) was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance .

Life

1507 born Mirgiliano Giovanni moved with his parents to Naples at Pietro Belverte from Bergamo to start the wood carving and then the marble to learn -Bildhauerei. As early as 1508 he was paid for his joint work with Belverte on a now-lost Anne Altar in the Chiesa dell'Annunziata in Naples. He continued studying under Agnolo Aniello Fiore and then went to Rome , which attracted him because of Michelangelo Buonarroti , whose work he studied intensively. After his return to Naples he received orders for churches, squares and palaces.

Giorgio Vasari later complained that it was difficult to make a clear judgment about him due to the large amount of assistant involved in Giovanni da Nola's work. In addition, there is the fact that many of these works have only been handed down in documentary form and a large part of the work he has claimed today is not attested to by contemporary sources, but only by later local literature.

Giovanni da Nola died in Naples in 1558 at the age of 70 (according to Vasari, 1568).

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Bologna (1950, 1951) has the lunette of the monument to Galeazzo Pandone in San Domenico Maggiore and the wooden reredos of St. Assigned to Eustachius in S. Maria la Nova . Abatte (1977) also tried to prove that Giovanni was on the tomb of Pandone and on the tombs of Rinaldo del Doce and Giovanni Battista del Doce (1519) in S. Domenico Maggiore, and on the tomb of Giovannello de Cuncto in S. Maria delle Grazie a Caponanapoli has worked with Giovanni Tommaso Malvisto. Before 1524 Giovanni created life-size, wooden nativity figures for Santa Maria del Parto on behalf of Jacopo Sannazaro, five of which have survived, as well as a wooden crucifix for Sant'Anna dei Lombardi , which is now lost . His first secured marble work is the tomb for the viceroy Ramón de Cardona . It was created between 1522 and 1525 and was placed in the Franciscan Church of Bellpuig in Catalonia . A strong resemblance to the tombs of Andrea Sansovinos in Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome becomes clear here.

In 1528 Giovanni da Nola created the high altar of S. Lorenzo Maggiore and around 1530/1531 the tomb of Antonia Gaudino in S. Chiara, which was destroyed in 1943 . A Medea statue , also lost today, is attested in 1531 in three epigrams by Jano Anysio. The tombs of the Dukes of Termoli in S. Maria del Popolo agli Incurabili and probably also a crucifix and a wooden Ecce Homo in S. Maria la Nova date from the same year ; However, Bologna assumes an earlier date of origin of the crucifix. Other works from the 1930s are: the altar of the Ligorio family in Sant'Anna dei Lombardi ; a Madonna and Child on Clouds in the cloister of S. Lorenzo ; there is also a statue of St. Laurentius; a statue of St. Mary erected in memory of Dorotea Malatesta who died in 1534 Dorothea in Sant'Aniello a Caponapoli; the sarcophagus and the relief of the Madonna from the tomb of Guido Fieramosca in Montecassino ; the altar of the Madonna della Neve in S. Domenico Maggiore in Naples; three tombs for Jacopo, Ascanio and Sigismondo Sanseverino and a tabernacle in SS. Severino e Sossio , for which the contract was signed in July 1539 and for which Giovanni received payments until 1545. Two other tombs were erected around the same time: on the one hand that of Giovanni Antonio Caracciolo in the Annunziata , which was destroyed by fire in 1757, and that of the late Viceroy Pedro de Toledo and his wife for the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in 1553 .