DOI Artikel:
Karpowicz, Mariusz: Artyści włoscy w Pożajściu: Pietro Puttini i Giovanni Merli
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MARIUSZ KARPOWICZ
I TALI AN ARTISTS IN POŻAJŚCIE - PIĘTRO PUTTINI AND GIOVANNI MERLI
S u m m a г у
The Cameldolite church in Pożajście near Kowno, funded by Krzysztof Pac, the Chancellor of Lithuania, was erected in the
years 1667-1690. Its architectural concept was based on a shape of hexagon surrounded by four side-chapels and combined with
two-tower façade, conceived to maximise the exposition of the cupola crowning the building. Pożajście was the first place outside
the Italy, where such an architectonic solution, originating from Borromini's S. Agnese church in Rome (façade constructed during
the years 1652-1655), was used. For the next façade based on the curved lines design Europe north to the Alps waited till the last
years of the 17th c, till the construction of Fischer von Erlach's churches in Salzburg.
The basie outline of the Pożajście façade refers to other Roman church - S. Trinitâ dei Monti. The interior, however, calls
back to lombardian style - the architectural orders of the church of S. Fedele in Milan and the interior of the church of S. Croce
in Riva S. Vitale on Lake Lugano. Both the churches were designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi.
The author of the church in Pożajście was Isidoro Affaitati (1622 - around 1686), born in Albogasio Inferiore on Lake
Lugano, the main architect of the king Jan Kazimierz after 1655. He previously, in 1659, designed a very similar church for the
Cameldolites funded by the king at Bielany near Warsaw. But as the final construction of the church took place yet in the years
1733-1756, it was completed without the dome.
The supervisors of the construction in Pożajście were two brothers, Carlo and Piętro Puttini, born in the same Albogasio
Inferiore that Affaitati came from. And more, Piętro was married to Isidor's nièce. It was Piętro Puttini who re-designed tambour
Windows and the shape of the dome in his own manner. In 1693, in Dasio, he built a belfry that bears certain resemblance to the
towers of the façade in Pożajście.
Stucco décorations in Pożajście were executed in 1676 by Giovanni Merli, also born in Albogasio and married to the nièce
of Isidoro's wife. Thus, both the design and the construction of the church were carried out by the family clan. It was a typical
system for the artists from the Land of Alpine Lakes to organise their work, regardless to where they were active.
The church in Pożajście is an outstanding masterpiece of Central European architecture not only because of the perfection
of its design and construction (the exterior faced with stone and the interior with marble), but first of ail by its innovative approach
to the design and to the mass and to the layout of the façade that presaged the 18th c.
Zdjęcia wykonał: M. Karpowicz - 10, 12-14.
MARIUSZ KARPOWICZ
I TALI AN ARTISTS IN POŻAJŚCIE - PIĘTRO PUTTINI AND GIOVANNI MERLI
S u m m a г у
The Cameldolite church in Pożajście near Kowno, funded by Krzysztof Pac, the Chancellor of Lithuania, was erected in the
years 1667-1690. Its architectural concept was based on a shape of hexagon surrounded by four side-chapels and combined with
two-tower façade, conceived to maximise the exposition of the cupola crowning the building. Pożajście was the first place outside
the Italy, where such an architectonic solution, originating from Borromini's S. Agnese church in Rome (façade constructed during
the years 1652-1655), was used. For the next façade based on the curved lines design Europe north to the Alps waited till the last
years of the 17th c, till the construction of Fischer von Erlach's churches in Salzburg.
The basie outline of the Pożajście façade refers to other Roman church - S. Trinitâ dei Monti. The interior, however, calls
back to lombardian style - the architectural orders of the church of S. Fedele in Milan and the interior of the church of S. Croce
in Riva S. Vitale on Lake Lugano. Both the churches were designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi.
The author of the church in Pożajście was Isidoro Affaitati (1622 - around 1686), born in Albogasio Inferiore on Lake
Lugano, the main architect of the king Jan Kazimierz after 1655. He previously, in 1659, designed a very similar church for the
Cameldolites funded by the king at Bielany near Warsaw. But as the final construction of the church took place yet in the years
1733-1756, it was completed without the dome.
The supervisors of the construction in Pożajście were two brothers, Carlo and Piętro Puttini, born in the same Albogasio
Inferiore that Affaitati came from. And more, Piętro was married to Isidor's nièce. It was Piętro Puttini who re-designed tambour
Windows and the shape of the dome in his own manner. In 1693, in Dasio, he built a belfry that bears certain resemblance to the
towers of the façade in Pożajście.
Stucco décorations in Pożajście were executed in 1676 by Giovanni Merli, also born in Albogasio and married to the nièce
of Isidoro's wife. Thus, both the design and the construction of the church were carried out by the family clan. It was a typical
system for the artists from the Land of Alpine Lakes to organise their work, regardless to where they were active.
The church in Pożajście is an outstanding masterpiece of Central European architecture not only because of the perfection
of its design and construction (the exterior faced with stone and the interior with marble), but first of ail by its innovative approach
to the design and to the mass and to the layout of the façade that presaged the 18th c.
Zdjęcia wykonał: M. Karpowicz - 10, 12-14.