Giuseppe Spatafora

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Giuseppe Spatafora (born before 1551, probably in Termini Imerese ; died in Palermo in 1572 ) was an Italian sculptor, plasterer and architect of the Senate in Palermo in the second half of the 16th century.

Life

Spatafora was a student of Antonello Gagini in Palermo and worked in the workshop of his sons Fazio and Vincenzo . From 1551 to 1554 he designed a model for the new building of the Chiesa di Santa Maria la Nova . From 1567 to 1568 he was involved in the redesign of the Cassaro (today Corso Vittorio Emanuele ), which was in connection with the urban renewal (Renovatio Urbis) ordered by Viceroy Carlo de Aragon . In 1564 Spataforo became the town's builder.

His best-known sculptural work is the holy water stoup in the cathedral of Palermo , created in collaboration with Antonio Ferraro in 1553 with the “Annunciation” and the reliefs “Moses knocks water out of the rock” and “Christ heals a paralyzed man”.

His son was the painter, sculptor and architect Antonio Spatafora . The painter Giuseppe d'Alvino , known as il Sozzo (around 1550 - April 11, 1611) is proven to be a pupil of Spatafora .

literature

  • Aldo Casamento: La rettifica della Strada del Cassaro in Palermo. One copy of the realizzazione urbanistica nell'Europa del cinquecento. Flaccovio, Palermo 2000, ISBN 88-7804-175-0 .
  • Antonio Contino, Salvatore Mantia: Un felice connubio artistico: La Barbera-Spatafora. In: Le Madonie. Vol. 76, No. 3, March 1, 1997, p. 3.
  • Antonio Contino, Salvatore Mantia: Vincenzo La Barbera, Architetto e Pittore Termitano. La famiglia La Barbera dalla Liguria a Termini Imerese nei secoli 16. e 17. Editrice GASM, Termini Imerese 1998.
  • Antonio Contino, Salvatore Mantia: Architetti e pittori a Termini Imerese tra il 16th ed il 17th secolo. Editrice GASM, Termini Imerese 2001.
  • Ignazio De Michele: Cenni sopra un affresco attribuito a Giuseppe Spatafora e sopra alcune opere di V. La Barbera. Amore & Giuffrè, Termini Imerese 1877.
  • Claudia Guastella: Ricerche su Giuseppe Alvino detto il Sozzo e la pittura a Palermo alla fine del Cinquecento (= Contributi alla storia della cultura figurativa nella Sicilia occidentale tra la fine del 16. e gli inizi del 17th secolo. Atti della giornata di studio su Pietro D'Asaro, Racalmuto, Auditorium di S. Chiara 15 February 1985 ). Arti grafiche siciliane, Palermo 1985.
  • Teresa Pugliatti: Pittura del Cinquecento in Sicilia. La Sicilia Occidentale, 1484-1557. Electa, Naples 1998, ISBN 88-435-8753-6 .
  • Spatafora, Giuseppe . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 337 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosario Term Otto, Gabriele Marino: Arte e storia delle Madonie . tape VII-VIII . Lulu.com, ISBN 978-0-244-54252-8 , pp. 143 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ a b c Spadafora Giuseppe Comune di Palermo - Archivio Biografico Comunale.
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Unger : Albina. Giuseppe Albina . In: Julius Meyer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition. tape 1 : Aa-Andreani . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1872, p. 232 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - new edition by Georg Kaspar Nagler: General Artist Lexicon).
personal data
SURNAME Spatafora, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1551
PLACE OF BIRTH Termini Imerese
DATE OF DEATH 1572
Place of death Palermo