Onorio Longhi

Facade of the Church of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo

Onorio Longhi (born October 12, 1568 in Viggiù , † December 31, 1619 in Rome ) was an Italian architect . He belonged to the Longhi architectural dynasty .

Life

Onorio Longhi was born in 1568 as the son of the architect Martino Longhi the Elder in Viggiù in Lombardy . He worked as his father's assistant. After his death in 1591 he took over his orders. He was a close friend of Caravaggio and, together with him, repeatedly came into conflict with the law. He was also involved in the manslaughter of Ranuccio Tommasoni by Caravaggio and therefore had to go into exile in his homeland in 1606. There he drafted plans for the Milan Cathedral , but they were not carried out. In 1611 Longhi was able to return to Rome and began building Santi Ambrogio e Carlo , the church that would become his main work. After his death his work was continued by his son Martino Longhi the younger .

Longhi was a member of the Accademia di San Luca .

plant

Discorso di Honorio Lunghi (1607)

• Santi Ambrogio e Carlo , Church in Rome, 1612 until his death. Completed by Martino Longhi the Younger and Pietro da Cortona .
• Santa Maria Liberatrice, church in Rome, destroyed during excavations for the Roman Forum in the 1930s .
• Cappella Santoro in the Lateran Basilica
• Palazzo Verospi in Rome
• Facade of the Palazzo Altemps
• Palazetto in the Villa Altemps , disappeared today. The main facade was installed in the house Via del Campidoglio 8 in 1927.
• Sant'Eusebio , high altar
• Santa Maria in Aracoeli , Capella Colonna

literature

• Gianluigi Lerza:  Longhi, Onorio Martino. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 65:  Levis-Lorenzetti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.kunstwissen.de
2. ↑ Marco Radozzi's blog, May 5, 2019, accessed on July 6, 2020

Web links

• Onorio Longhi. In: arch INFORM .