Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia

Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia: Palazzina Ficuzza

Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia (born February 6, 1729 in Palermo , † December 19, 1814 there ) was an Italian architect of the late Baroque and early Classicism.

From 1747 to 1759 Marvuglia studied in Rome , where in 1758 he won the second prize in the Accademia di San Luca competition. In 1759 he returned to Sicily with a classical education .

He taught at the Università degli Studi di Palermo from 1780 to 1805, where he held the professorship for Practical Geometry, Civil Architecture and Hydraulic Engineering , which was founded in 1779 within the Faculty of Philosophy.

In 1805 Marvuglia was accepted as a foreign member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

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Palazzina Cinese

• Oratorio di San Filippo in Palermo (1760)
• Renovation and expansion of the Abbazia di San Martino delle Scale , library (1733)
• Chiesa di San Francesco di Sales (1772–1778)
• Execution of the Albergo dei Poveri in Palermo together with Nicolò di Puglia
• Villa of the Villarosa in Bagheria at the end of the 18th century
• Palazzo Geraci and Palazzo Ventimiglia, also called Riso in Palermo (1784)
• Caldarium and tepidarium of the Botanical Garden of Palermo (1789–1795)
• Palazzina Cinese in Palermo (1790)
• Project to renovate the Convento di San Giuseppe dei Teatini for the benefit of the University of Palermo
• Palazzina della Ficuzza
• Design of the Piazza Caracciolo alla Vucciria in Palermo
• Completion of an archway on Monte di Pietà in Palermo

Awards

• Second prize of the Concorso Clementino

literature

• Francesca Passalacqua:  Marvuglia, Giuseppe Venanzio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 71:  Marsilli – Massimino da Salerno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2008.

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia at the KHI Florence

Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia at liceogaribaldi