Michele Sanmicheli

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Sanmicheli monument in Verona
Palazzo Roncale, Rovigo
Palazzo Grimani , Venice
Land gate - Porta Terraferma , Zadar (1543)

Michele Sanmicheli (* 1484 in Verona , † 1559 ) was an architect of the late Renaissance and next to Antonio da Sangallo. J. the most important fortress builder of his time.

Life

Sanmicheli learned from Donato Bramante in Rome and was inspired by him in his work. But the buildings of the 15 years younger builder Giulio Romano had a strong influence on him, especially his early Mantuan masterpiece, the Palazzo del Te . Soon he entered the service of the Vatican and worked there for a long time. In 1528 he entered the service of the Republic of Venice , enlarged and improved almost all of its fortifications and had the Lido fortified for the first time (1535–1549). In Verona he provided the old city walls with imposing gates, including the Porta Nuova . There he also built the palaces Bevilacqua and Pompei , in Venice the Palazzo Grimani . The church of Madonna di Campagna in Verona, for which he had delivered the plans, was not built until after his death, as was the little-noticed fortress of San Andrea in the port entrance of Venice.

Sanmicheli buildings were formative for the powerful style of Veronese palaces in the style of Mannerist classicism with coarse rustication -masonry on the ground floor and another Mannerist elements that give the structures strength and plasticity. He fundamentally changed the cityscape of his hometown.

Works

The dates of many buildings vary in the literature:

literature

  • Howard Burns (Ed.): Michele Sanmicheli. Architettura linguaggio e cultura artistica nel Cinquecento . Electa, Milan 1995, ISBN 88-435-5420-4 .
  • Eva Hermanek: The Veronese palace buildings of Michele Sanmicheli . Erlangen 1984 (dissertation).
  • Lionello Puppi (Ed.): Michele Sanmicheli architetto . Caliban, Rome 1986.
  • Stefan Schweizer : Between representation and function. The city gates of the Renaissance in Italy (publications of the Max Planck Institute for History 184) . Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-35180-1 , p. 236-327 .

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SURNAME Sanmicheli, Michele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect of the late Renaissance and fortress builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1484
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 1559
Place of death Verona , Italy