ANTOLINI, GIANANTONIO. - Architect, b. at Castel Bolognese in 1754. Having begun his artistic education in Bologna, he moved to Rome, where he devoted himself to the study of ancient monuments. He was a member of the Roman Academy of the Peace, whose canons he remained faithful to throughout his style, expressed either in simple and severe forms of Greek inspiration, or in grandiose ones of Roman inspiration. His tendencies emerge, more than from his few works - a drawing of 1804 for the Foro Bonaparte in Milan, for the Procuratie nuovissime in Venice - from his theoretical writings: from the Ordine dorico ossia il Tempio di Ercole nella città di Cori of 1785, to the Osservazioni e aggiunte ai principi di architettura civile di F. Milizia of 1817 or Le rovine di Velleja of 1819-1822. From 1815 until his death (1842) he was a professor at the Brera Academy, helping to spread, even in sacred buildings, the paganizing forms characteristic of Neoclassical academicism.
Bibliography2 worksL. Malvezzi, La gloria dell'arte lombarda, Milano 1882; Anon., s. v. in Thieme-Becker I, p. 565.
BIBL.: L. Malvezzi, La gloria dell'arte lombarda, Milano 1882; Anon., s. v. in Thieme-Becker I, p. 565.
Donati, Maria. “Antolini, gianantonio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1512. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/antolini-gianantonio.
MLA
Donati, Maria. “Antolini, gianantonio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1512. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/antolini-gianantonio.
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@incollection{ec1_antolini_gianantonio,
author = {Donati, Maria},
title = {Antolini, gianantonio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1512},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/antolini-gianantonio}
}
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