Tommaso Maria Napoli

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Tommaso Maria Napoli (born April 16, 1659 in Palermo ; † June 12, 1725 there ) was an architect, mathematician and Dominican in Sicily .

life and work

Napoli was the son of a silversmith in Palermo. At a young age (1676) he joined the Dominican Order in Palermo. During his novitiate he received his architectural training from the architect and Dominican Father Andrea Cirrincione in the Palermitan convent of his order. His work on the facade of the Church of San Domenico in Palermo is documented. He enjoyed additional training in Rome , where he dedicated his work "Utriusque Architecturae Compendium" (1688) to the important architect Carlo Fontana .

In the following years he made numerous trips to Naples , Ragusa , Rome, Hungary and Vienna , where he worked for the imperial court.

From 1689 to 1700 he was appointed the official architect of the Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik ) to lead the reconstruction of the city, which was destroyed by the severe earthquake of 1667 . He was involved in the planning of the new construction of the cathedral and designed the chapel of the Rector's Palace in 1691/92.

Around 1711 he was back in Palermo, where he initially worked as the city's military architect and later as a royal Sicilian architect. From his travels, in addition to the Roman-Baroque style of Carlo Fontana, he brought an understanding of the architecture of the Austrian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach to Sicily.

Villa Palagonia ("dei Mostri") in Bagheria

From 1712 he built the Villa Valguarnera for Maria Anna del Bosco and from 1714 the Villa Palagonia for the Príncipe de Palagonia, Ferdinando Francesco Gravina , both in Bagheria . Because of its unusual sculptural decoration, the Villa Palagonia is also called “Villa dei Mostri” (Villa of the Monsters).

In 1722 he created the design for the Palermo Piazza San Domenico with the Marian Column, which was completed in 1725 by Giovanni Biagio Amico , modifying Napoli's original plan . At about the same time he provided designs for the procession terrace of the (no longer existing) nunnery "Sette Angeli" in Palermo.

Fonts

  • Utriusque Architecturae Compendium in duos libros. Giovanni Battista Molo, Rome 1688.
  • Breve ristretto dell'architettura militare e fortificazione offensiva e difensiva. Palermo 1723.

Literature on Napoli

  • Salvatore Boscarino: Sicilia Barocca. Architetture e città 1610–1760. 3. edizione. Officina edizioni, Rome 1997.
  • Eliana Calandra: Breve storia della architetture in Sicilia (= Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna. Volume 320, ZDB -ID 980413-4 ). Laterza Edizione, Bari 1938 (Also, as: Breve storia dell'architettura in Sicilia (= Universale di Architettura. Volume 13). Testo & Immagine, Turin 1997, ISBN 88-86498-16-0 ).
  • Maria Giuffrè: Baroque Sicily . Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-264-2 .
  • Katarina Horvat-Levaj: The Sicilian Architect Tommaso Maria Napoli and the Baroque Cathedral of Dubrovnik . In: Andrej Žmegač (Ed.): RIHA Journal . tape 116 (January – March), February 6, 2015, ISSN  2190-3328 (English, riha-journal.org ).
  • Napoli, Tommaso Maria . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 342 .
  • Erik Neil: L'architetto Tommaso Maria Napoli OP (1659-1725). In: Alfonso Gambardella (ed.): Ferdinando Sanfelice. Napoli e l'Europe. (Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Intorno a Ferdinando Sanfelice: Napoli e l'Europa. A Napoli e Caserta nei giorni 17–18–19 April 1997) (= Studi sul Settecento Napoletano. Volume 1). Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples 2004, ISBN 88-495-1011-X , pp. 365-375.
  • Erik H. Neil: Architects and Architecture in 17th & 18th century Palermo. In: Annali di Architettura. No. 7, 1995, ISSN  1124-7169 , pp. 159-176.
  • Francesca Passalacqua:  Napoli, Tomaso Maria. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77:  Morlini-Natolini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2012.
  • Angheli Zalapi: Palaces in Sicily . Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-2117-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Napoli, Tommaso Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1725
Place of death Palermo