Matteo Castelli

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Matteo Castelli , also Matteo Castello (* around 1560 in Melide (Ticino), † 1632 in Warsaw (or Melide)), marble sculptor, came from a well-known family of builders and sculptors by Melide. One nephew was Elia Castello .

Life

Around 1580 he worked in Rome in the workshop of his cousin Domenico Fontana from Melide, from 1592 in that of Carlo Madernos , another cousin. First he worked as a marble sculptor, then as a foreman and planner at Carlo Maderno, and finally self-employed.

Castelli was the only architect from the Maderno area who was active in East Central Europe and an important promoter of his then pioneering ideas and forms.

Works

The three chapels in S. Andrea della Valle (1603-1605), the western part of the Church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini (with Carlo Maderno from 1608) and the reconstruction of the Church of Santa are among the most important works that Castello built or helped to design in Rome Maria Maggiore (1608-1613). Appointed to the Polish court, he became the first architect of King Sigismund III in 1613 . He built u. a. with Warsaw Castle one of the first baroque palaces in Central Europe, which was built according to the avant-garde guidelines of Giacomo Fontana and Maderno.

Castelli can also be attributed: in Krakow the Church of St. Peter and Paul (1613–19, the only church north of the Alps in Roman Baroque), the Prince's Chapel of the Zbaraski in the Dominican Church (1627–1629) and St. Stanislaus Altar in the cathedral, also in the cathedral of Vilnius the St. Casimir Chapel (1626–36), the Ujazdowski Palace and the royal residence near Warsaw. In Melide he donated a memorial chapel from 1625 to 1626 and rebuilt his family's altar in the parish church

literature

  • Cesare d'Onofrio: Roma vista da Roma. Edizioni LIBER, 1967, pp. 67-69, 404-423.
  • Howard Hibbard: Carlo Maderno and Roman Architecture 1580-1630. London 1971.
  • Rūstis Kamuntavičius u. a .: Artisti del lago di Lugano e del Mendrisiotto in Lituania. In: Gli artisti del lago di Lugano e del Mendrisiotto nel Granducato di Lituania (from XVI to XVIII secolo). Ed. Giorgio Mollisi, “Arte & Storia”, Edizioni Ticino Management, Volume 13, Number 59, August – October 2013, Lugano 2013.
  • Giuseppina Ortelli-Taroni: Le famiglie Castelli di Melide. Tipografia Stucchi, Mendrisio 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mariusz Karpowicz: Matteo Castelli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2018 , accessed January 24, 2020 .
  2. ^ Celestino Trezzini : Matteo Castelli. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino_Caux_401_540.pdf, Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, p. 513, (PDF digitized , accessed on September 24, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Castelli, Matteo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castello, Matteo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Builder and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Melide
DATE OF DEATH 1632
Place of death Warsaw or Melide