Francesco Antonio Picchiatti (10 January 1619, Ferrara – 28 August 1694, Naples) was an Italian architect of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period active in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. He is also called Picchetto. He was son of Bartolommeo Picchiatti, who also served as an architect in Naples.

Biography

Francesco Antonio lived nearly all his life in Naples and worked for various Spanish viceroys. He worked under

Pedro Antonio de Aragón Pedro Antonio de Aragón (7 November 1611 – 1 September 1690) was a Spanish nobleman, military figure and politician who served under Kings Philip IV and Charles II of Spain. He was the brother of Cardinal Pascual de Aragón, Viceroy of Nap ...

and was held in high esteem by the Marquis of Carpio, Don Gaspar de Haro, who was viceroy in Naples from 1683 to 1687. Francesco Antonio served this Marquis as an antiquarian and collector. Francesco Antonio worked on a number of projects in Naples. He aided in the reconstruction of the church of San Agostino near the Royal Mint, the church of the Divino Amore, the church and Monastery of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and that of San Girolamo delle Monache, as well as Palazzo Cellamare. He helped build, and with his father design, the circular church of '' Pio Monte della Misericordia'', which contains

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

The Seven Works of Mercy ''The Seven Works of Mercy'' ( it, Sette opere di Misericordia), also known as ''The Seven Acts of Mercy'', is an oil painting by Italian painter Caravaggio, circa 1607. The painting depicts the seven corporal works of mercy in traditional Cat ...

. He helped complete the Spire of San Domenico to a design by Cosimo Fanzago. Picchiatti was so intent on preserving and cataloging remnants of the original

Greco-Roman The Greco-Roman civilization (; also Greco-Roman culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were di ...

city beneath the construction site that the work on the spire itself was eventually suspended and wasn't resumed until many years later. He designed the convent of Santa Croce di Luca, begun in 1643. The convent stood at the extreme western end of the old historic city. It was demolished in 1900 to make room for the new Polyclinic hospital; a small section was left standing as an historical marker. He also help design the cloister attached to the church of San Domenico Maggiore; when he died, the work was continued by his younger colleague

Giovan Battista Nauclerio Giovanni Battista Nauclerio (Naples, 1666 - Naples, 1739) was an Italian architect and engineer, active in Naples, Italy. Biography Nauclerio is described as one of the Naples architects who went against the grain, paving the way for columned n ...

Notes

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Picchiati, Francesco Antonio 1619 births 1694 deaths 17th-century Italian architects Italian Baroque architects Architects from Naples Architects from Ferrara