Vincenzo Brenna

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Vincenzo Brenna ( Russian Винченцо Бренна Wintschenzo Brenna , also: Викентий Францевич Бренна Wikenti Franzewitsch Brenna ; born August 20, 1741 in Florence , † May 17, 1820 in Dresden ) was an Italian-Russian architect and painter . He became known as the court architect of the Russian Tsar Paul I.

biography

Vincenzo Brenna was born in Florence as the son of Francesco . Brenna lived in Rome around 1780 . There he drew the illustration panels for the large folio volume Vestigia delle Terme di Tito e loro internal pitture for the Roman publisher Ludovico Murri together with Franz Smuglievicz . In 1781 the two-volume large folio work Novus thesaurus gemmarum veterum was published in Rome , for which he had also drawn the illustration panels.

Then Vincenzo Brenna lived in Warsaw for some time . From there he moved to Saint Petersburg. He initially worked as a fresco decorator and painter, and later received orders as an architect. In Saint Petersburg he led the conversion of the imperial library building into a small theater in 1801 and in 1802 the provisional completion of the St. Isaac's Cathedral begun in 1768 by Antonio Rinaldi and the German architects Franz Wüst and Johann Friedrich Stengel .

Vincenzo Brenna became the tsar's court architect. In 1814 he was appointed Imperial Russian Council of State. One of his students was the architect Carlo Rossi .

The information on the dates of life and the place of death in the specialist literature are contradictory. Different year of birth: 1745; Different years of death: 1814, 1818, different place of death: Saint Petersburg.

Works

Michaelsburg (Saint Petersburg)
  • 1780: Illustration panels for the large folio work Vestigia delle Terme di Tito e loro internal pitture (60 panels, engraved in copper by Marco Carloni)
  • 1781: Illustration panels for the two-volume large folio work Novus thesaurus gemmarum veterum (200 panels, engraved in copper by JM Cassini)
  • after 1782: Gatchina Castle is rebuilt like a fortress together with Antonio Rinaldi and enlarged to over 900 rooms
  • 1790s: Expansion of the Pavlovsk summer residence , Brenna closes the oval of the courtyard
  • 1797–1800: Michaelsburg (Saint Petersburg), together with Vasili Iwanowitsch Baschenow
  • 1801: Small Theater (Saint Petersburg)
  • 1802: St. Isaac's Cathedral

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dmitrii Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ: Russian Architecture and the West. Yale University Press, New Haven 2007, p. 293
  2. ↑ Николай Лансере [Nikolay Lanceray]: Винченцо Бренна [Vincenzo Brenna]. Kolo, Saint Petersburg 2006, p. 37.
  3. ↑ Brenna, Vincenzo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 580 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ George Heard Hamilton: The Art and Architecture of Russia. 1983, p. 314.
personal data
SURNAME Brenna, Vincenzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brenna, Vikentij Francevič; Бренна, Винченцо (Russian); Бренна, Викентий Францевич (name variant); Brenna, Wikenti Franzewitsch (name variant, transcribed)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Russian architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1820
Place of death Dresden