Pietro Antonio Solari

Pietro Antonio Solari (* around 1445 in Carona ; † 1493 in Moscow ) was an Italian architect and sculptor .

Life

Solari was the son and student of Guiniforte Solari . He worked on the Milan Cathedral and went to Moscow around 1490, where he worked with Marco Ruffo , another Italian architect, on one of the palace buildings of the Kremlin . Tsar Ivan III served as the audience and throne hall . From 1491 the Facetted Palace designed by Ruffo and Solari , today the oldest secular building in Moscow that has been preserved. Solari designed the Borowizki-, Konstantin-Helenen-, Erlöser-, Nikolaus- and the Hundeturm (today Arsenal Tower). Unlike the Moscow work of Aristotle Fioravanti , this was executed in the Italian Renaissance style.

literature

• Vladimir Boguslawski: Slawjanskaja enziklopedija: Kijewskaja Rus-Moskowija: Tom 2 . Olma Medija Group, 2001, p. 402. ISBN 978-5-224-02251-9 . (Russian)
• Lara Calderari: Solari. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 3, 2012 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
• Helmut Stalder: Pietro Antonio Solari. A Ticino man teaches Russia to shine. In: Helmut Stalder: Misunderstood visionaries. 24 Swiss life stories. Verlag NZZ Libro, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03823-715-0 , pp. 43–49.

Web links

Commons : Pietro Antonio Solari  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Palaces of Power: The Kremlin ( February 1, 2005 memento in the Internet Archive )
• Biography Pietro Antonio Solari, accessed January 11, 2014