Giulio Lasso

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One of the four palaces in Palermo called Quattro Canti

Giulio Lasso, also Borgianni or Scalzo (* 1565/70 in Rome , †  November 7, 1612 in Palermo ) was an Italian architect and engineer who worked in Sicily .

He worked as a sculptor and architect in Messina , Catania , Piazza Armerina , San Martino alle Scale (near Monreale ) and Palermo, as a fortress builder in Milazzo , Pozzallo and Capo Passero . His main works are the Quattro Canti ( four corners ) built in Palermo between 1608 and 1620 . The concave facades of these four palaces at a central intersection are considered a typical example of the Sicilian Baroque . The building ensemble was completed by Mariano Smiriglio after Lasso's death . Lasso was able to finish the church of the Benedictine Abbey of San Martino delle Scale in 1612 . He also designed the colonnades and the western cloister of the Benedictine monastery of San Nicolò l'Arena in Catania , which was badly damaged by the 1693 earthquake in the Val di Noto .

Lasso was the stepbrother of the painter Orazio Borgianni (* around 1575 in Rome; †  January 15, 1616 there ), who accompanied him to Sicily.

literature

  • Guilio Natali, Eugenio Vitelli (ed.): Storia dell'Arte ad uso delle scuole e delle persone colte . tape 1 . Società Tipografico-Editrice Nazionale, Turin / Rome 1907, p. 21st f . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Lasso, Giulio . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 410 .
  • Marcello Fagiolo Dell'Arco, Maria Luisa Madonna: Il teatro del Sole, la rifondazione di Palermo nel Cinquecento e l'idea della città barocca . Officina ed., Roma 1981, pp. 236-238 .
  • Roberto Patricolo, Francesco Saverio Brancato, Giovanna Fiducia: Giulio Lasso: l'architetto del Teatro del Sole . Istituto storico siciliano, Palermo 1991, OCLC 860022639 .
  • Salvatore Maria Calogero: Il Monastero catanese di San Nicolò l'Arena, dalla posa della prima pietra alla confisca post-unitaria . Editoriale Agorà, Catania 2014, ISBN 978-88-89930-27-4 , p. 39-52 .

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SURNAME Lasso, Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1612
Place of death Palermo