Leandro Marconi (architect, 1763)

Leandro Marconi (* 1763 in Mantua , † 1837 in Bologna ) was an Italian architect. He also worked as an ornament and perspective painter , set designer, scenographer and set designer . As a versatile artist, he was known for his imaginative and original style and his aesthetic experiments.

life and work

He was the son of the Venetian Francesco Marconi and studied in his hometown at the Academy of Fine Arts . under Paolo Pozzo.

Palazzo Ghini, Cesena (courtyard side)

Around 1784 Marconi and Felice Campi carried out decorative paintings in the sacrament chapel of the cathedral in Mantua, for which his teacher Pozzo provided the iconographic concept. Later he continued his education in Rome and also worked there. From 1791 Marconi stayed in Cesena , where he was responsible for the construction and furnishing of the Chiesa dell'Osservanza. The classicist frescoes , the niche vaulting in the apse , the coffered vault and the false dome also come from him . He then built the Palazzo Ghini (formerly Palazzo Mazzoli) in Via Charimionti in Cesena. He structured its facade with three rows of windows and cornices and emphasized the harmonious symmetry with a central portal. A monumental staircase led to the rooms on the first floor, which Marconi designed with complex elements, which consisted of both illusionistic paintings and a wealth of interior design forms. From 1792 to 1796 he worked on the same street at Palazzo Guerrini Bratti, which was characterized by a spiral staircase leading to a gallery on the second floor and also contained refined interior design details and paintings.

In 1804, after the Napoleonic reforms, he became professor at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, in 1821 he built the villa “La Rotonda” in the style of the Palladian villas for Duke Guidi di Bagno in Savignano sul Rubicone . In Bologna, a monument is dedicated to him in the columbarium there .

In 1811 Marconi published the work Teoria dell'ombreggiare e metodo di acquerelle in Bologna . Some drawings (architectural designs and fantasies in the style of Giovanni Battista Piranesi ) were owned by the family in Warsaw . A booklet with ornaments (16 lithographic plates) was published in Warsaw in 1862 from his estate . In Cesena, the Piazzale Leandro Marconi is named after the artist.

family

Marconi's wife was Eleonora Gerbert. The couple's two sons were Ferrante (1798–1868) and Enrico Marconi (who emigrated to Warsaw). Grandsons who worked as architects in Poland were Leandro and Władysław Marconi . Another grandson was a painter: Karol Antoni Marconi .

References and comments

1. ↑ according to Anna Ottani Cavina: L'età neoclassica a Faenza. 1780-1820 , Alfa, 1979, p. 194
2. ↑ according to Adolf K. Placzek : Macmillan encyclopedia of architects, Volume 4 , Free Press, 1982, p. 106
3. ^ Paolo Pozzo (1741–1803) was an Italian architect
4. ↑ Italmappe website
5. ↑ Internet page  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.homolaicus.it  
6. ↑ according to Federica Sternini: Massimiliano Putti  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , certosa.cineca.it (in Italian)

literature

• Marconi, Leandro . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 76 .
• Forlì, Cesena and its province , Guide d'Italia, Touring Editore, 2006, ISBN 978-8-83653488-3 , p.