Ventura Rodríguez

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Ventura Rodríguez - Portrait of Francisco de Goya (1784); Swedish National Museum , Stockholm

Buenaventura Rodríguez Tizón , known as Ventura Rodríguez (born  July 14, 1717 in Ciempozuelos , Madrid ; †  September 26, 1785 , Madrid ) was one of the most important Spanish architects of the late Baroque period and the phase of transition to classicism (2nd half 18th century).

biography

Ventura Rodríguez was the son of the architecture professor Antonio Rodríguez and his wife Jerónima Tizón from Ciempozuelos near Madrid. His talent as a technical draftsman was noticed at an early age and with the help of the Italian architect Filippo Juvara , who had been working at the Spanish court since 1735 , he was given a job in this profession. In 1741 he was employed as the second foreman in the new building of the Palacio Real in Madrid. During a stay in Italy in the mid-1740s, he studied the architecture of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini ; in 1747 he was made an honorary member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1752 the Spanish King Ferdinand VI appointed made him director of the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando .

With the accession of the new King Charles III. in 1759 he lost his position as court architect, so that he no longer received any major orders from the court - he consequently had to keep himself afloat with smaller orders. His public reputation hardly suffered, because in 1764 he became city architect of Madrid; Another two years later (1766) the Council of Castile ( Consejo de Castilla ) commissioned him with the assessment of all submitted drafts and cost calculations for new buildings or repair work on public building measures. From the brother of the former King Ferdinand VI, Luis de Borbón y Farnesio , he got the order to build two smaller palaces.

Ventura Rodríguez died in 1785. He and his colleague Juan de Villanueva found their final resting place in the Basilica of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid.

Works

Palace Chapel of the Palacio Real, Madrid

For many of the works ascribed to him it is unclear whether Ventura Rodríguez only drafted the plans and construction drawings or whether he took over or supervised the entire construction management.

Major works
Minor works
Ermita de San Nicasio, Leganés ( Madrid Province )
Palacio del Infante don Luis , Boadilla del Monte (Madrid Province)
Destroyed buildings etc.
Interior fittings
Others

  • Banners , Cuenca

  • Cybeles Fountain, Madrid

  • Noain Aqueduct

  • Conchas Fountain, Boadilla del Monte

See also

At the same time, the following important architects were also active in Spain:

Web links

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annotation

  1. ↑ August 26, 1785 is also mentioned in the literature
personal data
SURNAME Rodríguez, Ventura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodríguez Tizón, Buenaventura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH Ciempozuelos
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1785
Place of death Madrid