Maderna, Carlo

Carlo Maderna or Maderno ( Italian: Carlo Maderna , Maderno ; 1556 - 1629 ^[1] ) - Swiss - Italian architect , studied with his uncles - first from Domenico , then from Giovanni Fontana.

Carlo Maderna
Carlo maderno
Facade of the Church of St. Susanna
Basic information
Birth name	Carlo maderno
A country	Italy
Date of Birth	1556 ( 1556 )
Place of Birth	Kapolago , Ticino ( Switzerland )
Date of death	January 30, 1629 ( 1629-01-30 )
A place of death	Rome
Work and Achievements
Worked in the cities	Rome
Architectural style	baroque
The most important buildings	facade of the Church of St. Susanna in Rome, fountains in St. Peter's Square, the palace of Mattei di Jove.
Unrealized projects	Palazzo barberini
Awards

Maderno came to Rome from Lombardy in about the 80s of the XVI century, began to work as a bricklayer, together with Uncle Giovanni and built water pipes and fountains. It is known that he designed the right fountain in St. Peter's Square in 1613. Maderna also completed a number of structures whose construction was started by other architects: for example, the Palazzo Chigi after Giacomo della Porta - construction was completed by 1630.

The first independent work of Carlo Maderna is the creation of the facade of the Church of Santa Susanna . The facade of the cathedral is divided into two tiers. The lower tier is decorated with half columns. The architect here for the first time used a sample of a balustrade above the portal's pediment. Half columns emphasize the vertical axis of the building. Decorative elements and sculptures give the most expressiveness to the forms. Then Maderno in 1605 worked on the interior of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria . The architect also completed the construction of St. Peter's Basilica in 1605-1613. He changed the appearance of the central plan of the cathedral, stretching out its nave and chapel, making a Latin cross from the Greek. The facade began to dominate the rest of the architectural elements of the cathedral. Subsequently, the Blessing Lodge was placed here for the pope.

Facade of the Basilica of St. Peter.

Carlo Madera erected the domes of churches - San Giovanni dei Fiorentini and San Andrea della Valle (construction started by Olivieri, the facade was completed by Rainaldi by 1664). In 1625-1665, Maderna also took part in the construction of the Barberini Palace in Rome, which was completed by J. L. Bernini , F. Borromini , P. da Cortona . Carlo Maderno, together with J. della Porta, built the villa Aldobrandini in Frascati in 1598-1603.

Maderna, extolled during his lifetime, was later subjected to severe and not quite fair criticism: one cannot but credit him with the fact that he resisted the general passion for extravagant and cheap effects in his time and tried to follow in the footsteps of St. Peter's in the footsteps of Bramante and Michelangelo , as far as possible without moving away from the severity and nobility of their ideas; if he did not succeed completely, then the fault was not so much his lack of talent as the time in which he lived.