Biagio Rossetti
Illustration — The Palazzo dei Diamanti in the Renaissance district of Ferrara Biagio Rossetti (c. 1447 – 1516) was an Italian architect and urbanist from Ferrara. A military engineer since 1483, and the ducal architect of Ercole I d'Este, in 1492 Rossetti was assigned the project of enlarging the city of Ferrara.
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Biagio Rossetti
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- 1447 · Ferrara.
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- 1516 · Ferrara.
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- architect · urban planner · artist
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Illustration — The Palazzo dei Diamanti in the Renaissance district of Ferrara Biagio Rossetti (c. 1447 – 1516) was an Italian architect and urbanist from Ferrara. A military engineer since 1483, and the ducal architect of Ercole I d'Este, in 1492 Rossetti was assigned the project of enlarging the city of Ferrara.
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Rossetti is considered the first architect in the history of urbanistics to make use of the advantages of the modern methods: balancing the humanistic principles in architecture, the real needs of the city, and local traditions. Beginning in 1492, he projected and directed construction of the defense walls around the city. The Diamond Palace is perhaps the most famous of his buildings. The exterior facade is clad in white marble blocks carved into diamond shapes ("bugnato a punta di diamante"). After Ercole's death in 1505, Rossetti served the Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, in which role he was responsible for the creation of many notable palazzi and churches. Among the latter, he helped design Santa Maria in Vado.
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1447
Biagio Rossetti was born in 1447 at Ferrara.
1450
House of Biagio Rossetti is dated 1450.
1450
Chiesa di Santa Maria in Vado is dated 1450.
1450
Palazzo di Giulio d'Este is dated 1450.
1450
Palazzo Tassoni Estense is dated 1450.
1450
San Benedetto (Ferrara) is dated 1450.
1450
Palazzo Trotti Mosti is dated 1450.
1516
Biagio Rossetti died in 1516 at Ferrara.
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- 1.Luigi Napoleone Cittadella. Notizie amministrative, storiche, artistiche relative a Ferrara, vol. II. Tipografia Domenico Taddei. 1868.
- 2.Biagio Rossetti (1444-1516). museoferrara.i.
- 3.Un panorama della fortuna critica otto-novecentesca e della letteratura dedicata alla figura di Biagio Rossetti è in V. Franchetti Pardo, La città di Ferrara e la cultura urbanistica nell’Europa dei secoli XV e XVI in, La città di Ferrara: architettura e restauro, atti della Giornata di studi a cura di R. Dalla Negra e A. Ippoliti (Ferrara 26 settembre 2012), Roma 2014, pp. 25-48 e in particolare pp. 25-27 e relative note.
- 4.Si vedano in particolare i regesti di Adriano Franceschini, ripresi e ampliati da Andrea Marchesi: A. Franceschini, Artisti a Ferrara in età umanistica e rinascimentale: testimonianze archivistiche, 2.1-2.2, Ferrara 1995-1997; A. Marchesi, Delizie d'archivio. Regesti e documenti per la storia delle residenze estensi nella Ferrara del Cinquecento. Tomo I: dimore suburbane ed extraurbane, Tomo II: dimore urbane, Ferrara 2011-2015.
- 5.B. Zevi, Biagio Rossetti architetto ferrarese. Il primo urbanista moderno europeo, Torino 1960, pp. 57-62 e pp. 108, 127 e 308.
- 6.Cfr. con M. Toffanello, Le arti a Ferrara nel Quattrocento. Gli artisti e la corte, Ferrara 2010 e A. Marchesi, Delizie d'archivio. Regesti e documenti per la storia delle residenze estensi nella Ferrara del Cinquecento. Tomo I: dimore suburbane ed extraurbane, Tomo II: dimore urbane, Ferrara 2011-2015.
- 7.A. Venturi, I primordi del Rinascimento artistico a Ferrara, in “Rivista storica italiana”, 4, 1884.; A. Venturi, L'arte a Ferrara nel periodo di Borso d'Este, in “Rivista storica italiana”, II, IV, Torino 1885; A. Venturi, L'arte ferrarese nel periodo di Ercole I d'Este, in “Atti e memorie Deputazione Storia Patria province Romagna”, III, VI-VII, 1888-89; A. Venturi, Maestri ferraresi del Rinascimento, in "L'Arte", VI, 5-7, 1903 e soprattutto A. Venturi, L'architettura emiliana nel Rinascimento, in Id., Storia dell'arte italiana - VIII - L'architettura del Quattrocento parte II, Ulrico Hoepli, Milano 1924.
- 8.Cfr con V. Franchetti Pardo, La città di Ferrara, cit.
- 9.A. Warburg, Arte italiana e astrologia internazionale nel Palazzo Schifanoia di Ferrara (1912), in M. Bertozzi, La tirannia degli astri. Gli affreschi astrologici di Palazzo Schifanoia, Livorno 1999, pp. 84-111.
- 10.W. Gundersheimer, Art and life at the court of Ercole 1. d'Este: the De triumphis religionis of Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti, edited with an introduction and notes by Werner L. Gundersheimer, Genève, Droz 1972 e W. Gundersheimer, Ferrara estense: lo stile del potere, Modena 1988.
- 11.T. Tuohy, Herculean Ferrara. Ercole d'Este (1471-1505) and the invention of a ducal capital, Cambridge 1996
- 12.C. Rosenberg, The Este monuments and urban development in Renaissance Ferrara, Cambridge 1997.
- 13.G. Padovani, Architetti ferraresi, Rovigo 1955 e precedenti.
- 14.A.F. Marcianò, L'età di Biagio Rossetti. Rinascimenti di casa d'Este, Ferrara-Roma 1991.
- 15.Questa la motivazione del World Heritage Committee nella diciannovesima sessione tenutasi a Berlino, Germania, dal 4 al 9 dicembre 1995: “The Committee decided to inscribe the property on the basis of criteria (ii), (iv) and (vi) considering that the site is of outstanding universal value, being a Renaissance city, remarkably planned, which has retained its urban fabric virtually intact. The developments in town planning expressed in Ferrara were to have a profound influence on the development of urban design throughout the succeeding centuries”. Vedi al link http://whc.unesco.org/archive/1995/whc-95-conf203-16e.pdf a p. 50.
- 16.S. Zamboni, ad vocem Benvenuti, Pietro, detto Pietro dagli Ordini, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 8, 1966.
- 17.A. Franceschini, Op. cit., 2.1, doc. 477.
- 18.B. Zevi, Op. cit., pp. 566-568 e Franceschini, Op. cit., 2.1, docc. 489, 650-651, 653, 729.
- 19.B. Zevi, Op. cit., pp. 131-174 e in particolare pp. 144-149; T. Tuohy, Op. cit., pp. 121-141; C. Rosenberg, Op. cit., pp. 110-152.
- 20.B. Zevi, Op. cit., pp. 144-149.
- 21.B. Zevi, Op. cit., pp. 158-174 e Ferrara 1492-1992: la strada degli Angeli e il suo Quadrivio: utopia disegno e storia urbana, a cura di C. Bassi, M. Peron, G. Savioli, Ferrara, Corbo 1992.
- 22.B. Zevi, Op. cit., pp. 342-344, 600-601, 609-610, 651-652 e documenti relativi in Franceschini, Op. cit.
- 23.B. Zevi, Op. cit., pp. 637-638 e 646-649.
- 24.B. Zevi, Op. cit., pp. 294-298 e 474-483.
- 25.L.N. Cittadella, Notizie amministrative, storiche, artistiche relative a Ferrara ricavate da documenti, II, Ferrara 1868, p. 256; B. Zevi, Op. cit., p. 661.
- 26.L.N. Cittadella, Notizie amministrative, storiche, artistiche relative a Ferrara ricavate da documenti, II, Ferrara 1868, p. 262; A. Franceschini, Op. cit., 2.2, doc. 1120.
- 27.M.A. Guarini, Compendio historico dell'origine, accrescimento, e prerogative delie Chiese, e Luoghi pii della Città, e Diocesi di Ferrara, Ferrara: presso gli eredi di Vittorio Baldini 1621, p. 371; B. Zevi, Op. cit., p. 25.
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