VALERIANI, GIUSEPPE. - Jesuit, painter and architect, b. at L'Aquila in 1542, d. at Naples on 15 July 1596.
A disciple of Pompeo Cesura, known as l'Aquilano, he entered the Order as a coadjutor brother in 1572, in Spain, where he had gone in search of fortune and had already carried out works of architecture and painting, including at the Escorial. Called to Rome around 1581, he was given the task of superintending the construction works that the Jesuits were erecting in Rome and elsewhere. As an architect he is credited with: the most elegant chapel of the Madonna della Strada in the Gesù in Rome (erroneously attributed to Giacomo della Porta); the Gesù in Genoa (Sts. Andrew and Ambrose); the Gesù Nuovo in Naples; the building of the Collegio Romano (formerly attributed to B. Ammannati: v. reproduction in vol. I, pl. 91 with the old attribution); the completion of the Jesuit church in Munich, St. Michael's. As a painter, mention should be made of his paintings in the chapel of the Transfiguration at S. Spirito in Sassia and the paintings of the chapel of the Madonna della Strada in Rome. He also occupied himself with composing a great directory concerning everything that pertains to buildings, for the use of the churches, houses and colleges of the Order; but the work remained unfinished and has so far been lost; it would have been very useful for deriving from it the principles and influences on the evolution of contemporary art promoted in those times also by the Society of Jesus.
As a reward for his virtues, in the last years of his life (between 1584 and 1587) he was promoted to the priesthood.
Bibliography9 worksS. Berettario, Annuae Litterae S. I. (a. 1596), Naples 1605, p. 658; G. Baglione, La vite dei Pittori, Scultori et Architetti da Gregorio XI
BIBL.: S. Berettario, Annuae Litterae S. I. (a. 1596), Naples 1605, p. 658; G. Baglione, La vite dei Pittori, Scultori et Architetti da Gregorio XIII all'a. 1642, Rome 1642, pp. 28, 83-84; Pastor, pp. 810 note 4, and 906; C. Galassi-Paluzzi, Architetti e decoratori della chiesa del Gesù, in Architettura e arti decorative, 4 (1924), fasc. II, pp. 49-58; M. Labò, Il Gesù (SS. Andrea e Ambrogio), Genoa 1932; P. Pirri, Chi fa l'architetto del Collegio Romano? Note sopra il p. G. V., in Civ. Catt., 1932, III, pp. 251-64; J. Braun, Fried. Sustris, der Schöpfer der St. Michaeliskirche zu München, in Münchener Jahrbücher der bildenden Kunst, new series, 10 (1933), pp. 247-69; P. Pirri, L'architetto romano Ammannati e i Gesuiti, in Arch. hist. S. I., 12 (1943), pp. 5-77, and especially pp. 33-40; P. Pecchiai, Il Gesù di Roma, Rome 1952, passim.
Testore, Celestino. “Valeriani, giuseppe.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 985. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/valeriani-giuseppe.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Valeriani, giuseppe.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 985. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/valeriani-giuseppe.
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author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Valeriani, giuseppe},
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address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
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