Paolo Amato

Paolo Amato (born January 24, 1634 in Ciminna , † July 3, 1714 in Palermo ) was an Italian Baroque architect in Sicily .

Life

Paolo Amato was a student of the architect Angelo Italia . In Palermo he was the main architect of the Senate from 1660 onwards. He also designed the floats for the feast of Saint Rosalia , designed marble decorations for churches and palaces and provided sculptural designs for various purposes. In 1732 his treatise on a new practice of perspective was published with his own engravings.

The following buildings were built in Palermo under his direction:

In 1681 he built the Foro Italico, a music theater that was destroyed in the mid-19th century. The Chiesa San Giuliano with the adjoining monastery, which he built in the second half of the 17th century, had to give way to the new building of the Teatro Massimo at the end of the 19th century . His main work is the domed Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore , begun in 1682 , which follows the Roman model of Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane .

literature

• Paul Kristeller: Amato, Paolo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 381 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Paolo Amato: La Nuova Pratica di Prospettiva nella quale si spiegano alcune nuove opinioni, e la regola universale di disegnare in qualunque superfice qualsivoglia oggetto opera utile, e necessaria a pittori, architetti, scultori. Toscano, terminata da Gramignani, Palermo 1714-1733.
• Maria Giuffrè: Baroque Sicily. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-264-2 .