Girolamo Grossi

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Girolamo Grossi (born December 10, 1749 in Bioggio , † August 21, 1809 in Arezzo ) was an Italian - Swiss Carmelite brother and architect of the late Baroque era .

Life

Girolamo Grossi was born to Giovanni Battista Grossi and Clelia Quadri. A little over 15 years old, he left Bioggio for Vienna in 1766. In Vienna, he attended the imperial engineering school (military academy) in Gumpendorf founded by Empress Maria Theresia , where he obtained a diploma in arithmetic, geometry and mathematics on April 6, 1768 . It is mentioned that he took the military engineering course.

He then went to Turin to the Regale Univdersità , where he received his diploma as a civil architect on September 7, 1772. He is considered to be the originator of the project for the new church of San Maurizio in Bioggio. He then went to Montecchio Emilia in the service of the Estensi , as evidenced by a document dated January 29, 1779, issued by Father Giovanni Castelvetri of the Minorites . Accordingly, his stay lasted three years.

After joining the Discalced Carmelite Monastery , the Church of Bioggio remains the only work that can be ascribed to him. On January 10, 1794 he was granted a rescript by Ferdinand III. naturalization in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . He settled in the monastery of San Paolino, where he held various positions within the order until he was elected Superior Provincial "cum decem suffragiis ex unecim" on April 26, 1795.

After his term of office he was appointed in April 1807 in Arezzo in the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie as sub-prior and new master of novices. Father Agostino dell'Addolorata stayed here until his death on August 21, 1809.

  • Facade of the Church of San Maurizio

  • Facade of the Church of San Maurizio

  • Side wall of the Church of San Maurizio

  • Apse of the church

  • Interior of the church

literature

  • Agostino Lurati : Padre Agostino della Vergine Addolorata (Carlo Gerolamo Grossi). Edizione privata, Luino 2011.
  • Various authors: Chiesa di San Maurizio di Bioggio - restauro 1983. Agno 1983.
  • Giovanni Maria Staffieri : Bioggio. In: Malcantone. Testimonianze culturali nei comuni malcantonesi. Lugano-Agno 1985, pp. 82-89, 101.
  • Various authors: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 394-395.
  • Patricia Cavadini-Bielander, Rossana Cardani Vergani, Giovanni Maria Staffieri: Bioggio. (Guide ai monumenti svizzeri SSAS), Società di storia dell'arte in Svizzera SSAS, Bern 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Various authors: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 394.
  2. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Gerolamo Grossi. P. 769 (PDF biblio.unibe.ch accessed on October 7, 2019)
  3. ^ Archivio provinciale dei Carmelitani Scalzi di Firenze.
  4. ↑ Padre Stanislao di Santa Teresa: Compendio della storia dell'Ordine Carmelitano. , Scuola tipografica calasanziana, Firenze 1925.
personal data
SURNAME Grossi, Girolamo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grossi, Gerolamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Bioggio , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1809
Place of death Arezzo