Ferdinando Sanfelice
Illustration — Palazzo dello Spagnolo, Naples. Sanfelice designed the stairs. • Illustration — Stairway within the Palazzo Serra di Cassano in Naples. Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675 – 1 April 1748) was an Italian late Baroque architect and painter.
Also recorded as Ferdinandus Sanfelicius · Sanfelice
Ferdinando Sanfelice
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- Born
- 1675 · Naples.
- Died
- 1748 · Naples.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- architect · painter
- Languages
- Italian
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Sanfelice was born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples and died there. He was one of the principal architects in Naples in the first half of the 18th century. He was a student of Francesco Solimena. Sanfelice was known primarily for temporary displays and his secular architecture. The former involved displays such as those set up for royal visits and births as well as for religious celebrations; the latter included a large number of family dwellings in Naples, including his own Palazzo Sanfelice, built between 1723 and 1728, and the Palazzo Serra di Cassano, finished around 1730. Most notable in Sanfelice's architecture are the staircases; rather than being incidental features set off to the side of a courtyard, he gave them central and prominent positions so that they became important architectural features in their own right, often as double staircases. Sanfelice also worked on churches in Naples, including San Lorenzo Maggiore, San Giovanni a Carbonara, and the chapel of the Nunziatella at the Nunziatella military academy.
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Ferdinando Sanfelice died on 1 April 1748; the place of death is Naples, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Ferdinando Sanfelice is recorded as architect and painter.
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Ferdinando Sanfelice appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as an architect and painter (18 February 1675 – 1 April 1748). Ferdinando Sanfelice was born on 18 February 1675; the birthplace is Naples, Italy, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
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1675
Ferdinando Sanfelice born at Naples.
1748
Ferdinando Sanfelice died at Naples.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3068734: Ferdinando Sanfelice
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- “Ferdinando Sanfelice”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 10110594-0, Convegno Internazionale di Studi Intorno a Ferdinando Sanfelice: Napoli e l'Europa (1997 : Napoli; Caserta).
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- 1."È il nostro Sanfelice di statura alta e, di robusta e proporzionata complessione, di color bianco, occhi negri, pelo biondaccio."
- 2."Sin dalla sua fanciullezza era invogliato delle arti così in far fruiti di cera li presepi con tanta esquisitezza eseguiti che dava maraviglia a eia che li vedeva e ricamando le sue sorelle in casa si poneva a ricamare con esse e le superava bellezza del lavoro e dando lor regola per bene ombrare i fiori e nell età di sette anni dipinse una soffitta di carta nella sua villa di Ottajano..."
- 3."Ed essendosi applicato ne suoi primi anni alle lettere si fé ammirare per un ingegno elevato dando speranza di avere a riuscire uno de letterati della sua età avendo imparato fra breve tempo la latina e greca lingua e compiuto gli studi di filosofia, matematica e legge e superava sempre i suoi condiscepoli si è dilettato di poesia così italiana come latina vedendosi le sue composizioni stampate in più raccolte."
- 4.AA.VV, SEGNO METODO PROGETTO. Itinerari dell'immagine urbana tra memoria e intervento. Elio de Rosa editore, Napoli, 1990.
- 5.D. Mazzoleni, I palazzi di Napoli, Arsenale Editrice (2007) ISBN 88-7743-269-1
- 6.Fonte presa dal sito www.nobili-napoletani.it.
- 7.Alfonso Gambardella, Cultura architettonica a Napoli nella metà del '700, in Barocco napoletano di AA.VV a cura di Gaetana Cantone, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma 1992, pp. 154-155, nota 18
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 10110594-0, Convegno Internazionale di Studi Intorno a Ferdinando Sanfelice: Napoli e l'Europa (1997 : Napoli; Caserta).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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