Giovanni Francesco Mormando
Illustration — Small church of Santa Maria della Stella alle Paparelle. Giovanni Francesco Mormando (1449 in Mormanno – 1530 in Naples) was an Italian architect active in Naples, Italy. He helped designing the church of Santi Severino e Sossio.
Giovanni Francesco Mormando
Nicolò Movelli · Biografia De Re Di Napoli: ornata de loro rispettivi ritratti, 1825 · Public domain
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- 1449 · Mormanno.
- Died
- 1530 · Naples.
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- architect
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Illustration — Small church of Santa Maria della Stella alle Paparelle. Giovanni Francesco Mormando (1449 in Mormanno – 1530 in Naples) was an Italian architect active in Naples, Italy. He helped designing the church of Santi Severino e Sossio.
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He also worked on the Chiesetta della Stella (Santa Maria della Stella alle Paparelle), and the Palazzo Filomarini for the Principe della Rocca. He is said to have met with and worked in the style of Leon Battista Alberti. The architect Sigismondo di Giovanni, who designed the Seggio di Nido and the cupola for the church of Santi Severino e Sossio, was his pupil. He traveled to Spain, to work for Ferdinand of Aragon, where he died. He putatively designed his home in Naples, Palazzo Mormando, located on via San Gregorio Armeno.
Giovanni Francesco Mormando (1449–1530) was an architect.
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- 1.Secondo Bernardo De Dominici, egli sarebbe nato, con attribuzione errata, a Firenze e avrebbe lavorato dapprima con Leon Battista Alberti e con Filippo Brunelleschi. Tale concetto del De Dominici ha influenzato altri scritti come Memorie di architetti antichi e moderni scritto da Francesco Milizia alla fine del Settecento.
- 2.Sempre secondo il De Dominici egli sarebbe nato nel 1455 e morto nel 1552 (attribuzione errata).
- 3.Giambattista Gennaro Grossi. Biografia degli uomini illustri nelle arti dipendenti dal disegno del regno di Napoli. 1820.
- 4.Il maestro Giovanni Donadio. 2010.
- 5.Domenico Morgante, La Musica in Puglia tra Rinascite e Rivoluzioni, prefazione di Giorgio Pestelli, Bari, Fondazione N. Piccinni, 1991.
- 7.Vedere le voci su Palazzo in via Santa Chiara (n. 26) e Palazzo in via San Giovanni Maggiore dei Pignatelli (n. 29).
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