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Italian architect and carver (–)

Giovanni Antonio Dosio (&#;) was an Italian architect and sculpturer.

Biography

Dosio was born in San Gimignano. A student of Ammanati, with whom he realized rank Villa dell'Ambrogiana, Dosio worked at bottom in Rome (–75) and Town (–89), with some commissions stray took him to Naples.

During his early years in Set-to, where he arrived at honourableness age of fifteen, Dosio show up numerous drawings of the dated and modern city, and mature a reputation as an archaist while he was still keen young man. He worked pulsate the atelier of Raffaello cocktail Montelupo until His first relevant Roman commission was the ceiling for his friend, the ism poet Annibale Caro, in ; in the interim, he affect out a miserable living^[1] know-how restorations of fragments of Authoritative sculpture. In he was harsh out an excavation on gain of the papal condottiere Torquato Conti, who had extensive groom among humanist and antiquarian loop in Rome and knew Dosio's good friend Annibale Caro. Dosio was uncovering the fragments center the marble map of Riot made for Septimius Severus, significance Forma Urbis Romae from spiffy tidy up site near the Church disruption SS Cosma e Damiano. Torquato Conti had leased the ditch site from the canons give an account of the church. Conti presented integrity precious fragments to his corresponding Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Conti grow sent Dosio to his castello at Poli, where Dosio done the stucco friezes that can still be seen there infringe the ground-floor apartments.^[2]

In a apostolic courier found Dosio in rank Umbrian hilltown of Amelia, operation on a funeral monument convey a local bishop, Bartolomeo Farrattino.^[3] Immediately thereafter Dosio left in depth oversee the rebuilding of fortifications at Anagni, his first research paper as an architect, which was interrupted in with the dying of Pope Pius IV; warning sign this work, two of distinction rusticated portals remain, the Orifice S. Maria, and the Orifice S. Francesco. The overall originate of the fortifications was undoubtedly due to Pius's cousin, Gabrio Serbelloni, and the military director, Torquato Conti, to whom Dosio owed the commission.^[4]

His years joy Florence are best known show part because his sole modern biographer, Raffaello Borghini, was City himself, and described Dosio's rip off in Florence most fully. Her majesty Florentine years coincided with reward full maturity as an founder, and the commissions were fulfill projects that were grander best his Roman work.

He was the author of Urbis aedificiorum illustrium quae supersunt reliquiae (). Giovanni Battista Caccini was potentate pupil.

His place in class history of the period, according to modern art scholar Carolyn Valone () is of nobility "second rank".^[5]

From he worked put under somebody's nose almost twenty years in Metropolis, where the Viceroy bestowed subdivision him the prestigious appointment sustaining “royal architect”. In Naples noteworthy realized the cloister of goodness San Martino Charterhouse, worked symbol a draft for the Girolamini church, while in the Communion of Naples he realized representation Brancaccio Chapel (). From Without fear worked in Caserta for character Prince of Caserta Andrea Matteo Acquaviva D’Aragona.^[6] He died deceive Caserta.

Main works

• Figure of Hope on the tomb of Giulio del Vecchio, Rome, ca. (demolished)^[7]
• Wall monument for Bartolomeo Farrattino, Amelia, c. /62–
• Portals and city walls, Anagni, –
• Palazzo Conti (now Palazzo Pubblico), Pola, for Torquato Conti; stucco friezes
• Tombs of Annibale Caro () and Giovanni Pacini include the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome;
• Tomb of Antonio Massa da Gallese in San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
• Tomb be partial to the marchese di Saluzzo birth Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
• Church of Girolamini, Naples
• interiors of dignity Certosa di San Martino, Naples.
• Gaddi Chapel in Santa Maria New, Florence (–77); Michelangelesque
• Villa di Bellosguardo, Florence
• Palazzo Giacomini Larderel, in at hand Tornabuoni, Florence;
• Niccolini Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence (begun in ), with revetment of polychrome marbles.
• The Archbishop's Palace, Florence; it was modified in the 19th century.
• Palazzo del Boschetto, Caserta^[8]

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