Giovan Francesco Buonamici (1692- 4 August 1759) was an Italian architect and painter 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 mainly around Ravenna, Fano, and his native Rimini.

Biography

He was born in Rimini, and may have worked as painter as young man, working with his brother who was decorating the ceiling of the parish church of San Martino in Rimini. Giovanni Francesco studied painting with Carlo Cignani. Only one independent painting (1723) by Buonamici is known, depicting the ''Consecration of Monsignor Maffeo Nicolò Farsetti''. He began working as an architect for the

Cathedral of Ravenna Ravenna Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale metropolitana della Risurrezione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo; Duomo di Ravenna) is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ in the city of Ravenna, Italy. Formerly the arch ...

under the patronage of the archbishop Farsetti. In 1731–1732, he worked on the restoration of the cappella Sancta Sanctorum in Basilica of

San Vitale, Ravenna The Basilica of San Vitale is a late antique church in Ravenna, Italy. The sixth-century church is an important surviving example of early Christian Byzantine art and architecture. It is one of eight structures in Ravenna inscribed on the UNESCO ...

. The baroque decorations were removed in the 1904 refurbishment. During 1734 to 1745, he worked on the reconstruction of the Duomo di Ravenna. This work gained him nomination by Farsetti as knight in the Order of the Golden Spur. Buonamici also worked (1721) in the San Francesco Saverio in Rimini. He also made designs in 1738 for churches in Santarcangelo di Romagna. In 1740, he designed a town tower for Fano. He was particularly active in his native Rimini, where he worked in the local Pescheria (1747); the renovation of the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo; the church of

San Simone Simon the Zealot (, ) or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean (, ; grc-gre, Σίμων ὁ Κανανίτης; cop, ⲥⲓⲙⲱⲛ ⲡⲓ-ⲕⲁⲛⲁⲛⲉⲟⲥ; syc, ܫܡܥܘܢ ܩܢܢܝܐ) was one of the most obscure among the Apostl ...

; the reconstruction of former Torre dell’Orologio in Piazza Giulio Cesare (1759) (subsequently razed); San Bernardino; and the stairs in the entrance of the Bishop's palace (1750). In 1758, he was nominated Academic of Honor of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Buonamici died in Rimini.''Giovan Francesco Buonamici Architetto Riminese del 700''
Thesis abstract of Federica Murra (1996-1997), under professor Arch. C. Cresti.

References

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