Guiniforte Solari

Facade of the Madonna delle Grazie church in Pavia

Guiniforte Solari also called Boniforte (* approx. 1429 in Carona TI (Switzerland); † approx. 1481 in Milan ) was an Italian architect and sculptor from Italian Switzerland .

Life

As the architect of the “Ospedale Maggiore”, Solari was the successor to the sculptor and architect Filarete (1400–1469). He was later commissioned by the Duke of Milan, Francesco I. Sforza (1401–1466), to build the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie and to supervise work on the Milan Cathedral . For some time he was also the architect of the Certosa di Pavia, which his father Giovanni (1410–1480) had started . Father and son both stayed true to Italian Gothic architecture , but they also combined new Renaissance architecture with the Lombard tradition. He was also instrumental in the architecture and construction of the Moscow Kremlin.

literature

• Gerolamo Biscaro: I Solari da Carona , in: Bollettino storico della Svizzera italiana , XXXIII, 1913, pp. 61-80.
• Lara Calderari: Solari. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 3, 2012 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
• Stefano Della Torre, Tiziano Mannoni, Valeria Pracchi (eds.): Magistri d'Europa. Eventi, relazioni, strutture della migrazione di artisti e costruttori dei laghi lombardi. Atti del convegno (Como, 23-26 ottobre 1996) , NodoLibri, Como 1997, pp. 196, 197.
• Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri: I Solari, architetti e scultori del XV secolo , in: Italian research at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz , I, 1906, pp. 76–111.
• Luciano Moroni Stampa, Giuseppe Chiesi (eds.), Ticino Ducale , Casagrande, Bellinzona, I / II, 2001, p. 157, 158.

Web links

Commons : Guiniforte Solari  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Santa Maria delle Grazie (Italian)
• Piazze di Chiavenna (ital.)
• Guiniforte Solari. In: Sikart , accessed January 28, 2016.