Editing Galeazzo Alessi

{{Infobox person
| image              = Perugia, busto di Galeazzo Alessi (03).jpg
| birth_date         = 1512
| birth_place        = [[Perugia]]
| death_date         = 30 December 1572
| death_place        = Perugia
| occupation         = [[Architect]]
| years_active       = 1536-1572
}}
{{Short description|Italian architect}}
[[Image:Galeazzo Alessi, Progetto originario per la facciata di Palazzo Marino a Milano.jpg|thumb|Alessi's original project for the façade of Palazzo Marino, Milan, altered in the execution]]
'''Galeazzo Alessi''' (1512 – 30 December 1572) was an Italian [[architect]] from [[Perugia]], known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the direction of [[Giovanni Battista Caporali]].<ref name="sturgis41">{{cite book|last1=Sturgis|first1=Russell|title=A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Volume I|year=1901|publisher=Macmillan|page=41}}</ref>

For a number of years he lived in [[Genoa]]. He was involved in the lay-out of the streets and the restoration of the city walls, as well as being responsible for many of its impressive [[palazzo|palazzi]], now a part of the [[World Heritage List]]. Alessi displayed particular aptitude for organizing compositions on sloping sites.<ref name="penguin">{{cite book |last1=Fleming |first1=John |last2=Honour |first2=Hugh |last3=Pevsner |first3=Nikolaus |title=The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture |date=1998 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=0-14-051323-X|page=10 |edition=5}}</ref>
* Saint-Georges Church, Périgueux, France His work can be found in many other Italian cities, including in [[Ferrara]], [[Bologna]], [[Naples]] and [[Milan]], where he designed the facade of [[Santa Maria presso San Celso]]. With [[Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola|Vignola]], he designed the [[Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli]] in Assisi, the seventh largest Christian church at the time. Elsewhere in Europe, he designed churches and palaces in France, Germany and [[Flanders]].<ref name="sturgis41"/> He produced designs for [[El Escorial]] in [[Spain]], but age and health prevented him from carrying them out.

==Selected works==

=== [[Perugia]] ===
* Rocca Paolina, remodelling
* Loggia at the Oratorio di S. Angelo della Pace
* S. Maria del Popolo (Camera di Commercio)
* Loggia for the [[Palazzo dei Priori]], remodelling
* Convent of Santa Giuliana (S. Caterina)
* Portale of the Villa del Leone
* Doorway in the southern flank of the [[Perugia Cathedral|Duomo]]
* Works for [[San Pietro, Perugia|San Pietro]]

===[[Assisi]]===
* [[Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli]]
* Tabernacle of San Francesco ([http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/341916 original design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art])
* Works in the [[Cathedral of San Rufino]]

===[[Genoa]]===
* Villa Giustiniani-Cambiaso, [[Albaro]]
* Basilica of [[Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta (Genova)|S. Maria Assunta, Carignano]]<ref name="curl">{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |title=Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860678-9|edition=2}}</ref>
* Porta del Molo (Porta Siberia), inserted in the city walls
* Cupola of [[Genoa Cathedral|St. Lawrence Cathedral]]<ref name="sturgis41"/>
* [[Villa delle Peschiere]]
* [[Villa Grimaldi-Sauli in Bisagno]]
* Proposals for the palazzi in the [[Via Garibaldi (Genoa)|Strada Nuova]]<ref name="sturgis41"/><ref name="curl"/>

=== [[Milan]] ===
* [[Palazzo Marino (Municipio di Milano)]], for the Genoese [[Tommaso Marino]].<ref name="sturgis41"/><ref name="penguin"/>
* [[San Barnaba (Milan)|San Barnaba]]<ref name="curl"/><ref name="penguin"/>
* Auditorium of the Scuole Canobiane
* [[Santa Maria presso San Celso]]<ref name="sturgis41"/><ref name="curl"/>
* San Raffaele
* Various projects in the [[Duomo di Milano]], including the monument of the Arcimboldi.

===[[Sacro Monte di Varallo]] ([[Province of Vercelli|Vercelli]])===
* City plan

===[[Rome]]===
*Unexecuted designs for the [[Church of the Gesù]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
*Rossi, ''Di Galeazzo Alessi memorie'' (Perugia, 1873)
* Emmina De Negri, ''Galeazzo Alessi : architetto a Genova'', (Quaderni dell'Istituto di storia dell'arte dell'Università di Genova, number 1, (Genoa) 1957).
* ''Galeazzo Alessi e l'architettura del Cinquecento'', atti del convegno internazionale di studi : Genoa, 16–20 April 1974, (Genoa 1975)
* R. L. Torrijos, "Un testamento dimenticato di Galeazzo Alessi", in ''Architettura, storia e documenti'', '''1''' (1985:97-100)
*{{CathEncy|wstitle=Galeazzo Alessi|author=[[Thomas Henry Poole]]}}

==External links==
{{EB1911 poster|Alessi, Galeazzo}}
* {{cite EB9 |wstitle = Galeazzo Alessi |volume= I  | page=479 |short=1}}
*{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Alessi, Galeazzo|short=x}}

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[[Category:1512 births]]
[[Category:1572 deaths]]
[[Category:16th-century Italian architects]]
[[Category:Artists from Perugia]]