Documentary data about the professional figure of Antonio Belguardo, which have come out during these last years, allow us to reconstruct a reliable and quiete complete biography of one of the most important and endowed masters of late gothic in western Sicily and Palermo. Active (operative) between the last twenty years of 15th century and early 16th century. The prestige and the role of the master are immediately evident when we consider the intense activity, which has been carried out, the success obtained with the “high” client and the rapid professional and social accession which has been confirmed by the royal head master’s office (1536) and by his son Giovanni’s clerical career, who could be identified as the bishop of Telese, Giovanni Beroardo from Palermo. The present work outlines Antonio Belguardo’s event (origins, professional training, debut, professional activity) and compares his professional downhill to the others masters and architects’one, characterized by different and social ambitions and active in some of Palermitan building yards, in whic worhed as royal head-master Antonio Belguardo.

Le informazioni documentarie emerse in questi ultimi anni sulla figura professionale di Antonio Belguardo permettono di ricostruire una biografia attendibile e abbastanza completa di uno dei più importanti e dotati maestri dell’ultimo gotico in Sicilia occidentale e a Palermo, operante tra l’ultimo ventennio del Quattrocento e il primo Cinquecento. Il prestigio e il ruolo del maestro appaiono subito evidenti se si considerano l’intensa attività svolta, il successo presso una committenza “alta” e la rapida ascesa professionale e sociale comprovata dalla carica di capomastro regio (1536) e dalla carriera ecclesiastica del figlio Giovanni probabilmente identificabile con il vescovo di Telese, Giovanni Beroardo, da Palermo. Il contributo tratteggia la vicenda di Antonio Belguardo (origini, formazione, esordio, ascesa e attività professionale) e mette a confronto la sua parabola professionale con quella di altri maestri e architetti (l’architector Filippo de Bertolinis, il magnifico Blasio Timpanella) caratterizzati da formazioni e da ambizioni sociali diverse e attivi in alcuni dei cantieri palermitani in cui lavorò il capomastro regio (Gancia, S. Cita, Ucciditore Magno).

SCADUTO, F. (2016). Principalis fabricator huius felicis urbis Panormi, in S. Montana, F. Scaduto, Antonio Belguardo a master of the late Gothic in Western Sicily and some of his contemporaries. In J.R.E. (coords.) B. Alonso Ruiz (a cura di), 1514 Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la Encrucijada (pp. 176-183). Siviglia : Uesus- Editorial Universidad de Sevilla.

Principalis fabricator huius felicis urbis Panormi, in S. Montana, F. Scaduto, Antonio Belguardo a master of the late Gothic in Western Sicily and some of his contemporaries

SCADUTO, Fulvia
2016-01-01

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Documentary data about the professional figure of Antonio Belguardo, which have come out during these last years, allow us to reconstruct a reliable and quiete complete biography of one of the most important and endowed masters of late gothic in western Sicily and Palermo. Active (operative) between the last twenty years of 15th century and early 16th century. The prestige and the role of the master are immediately evident when we consider the intense activity, which has been carried out, the success obtained with the “high” client and the rapid professional and social accession which has been confirmed by the royal head master’s office (1536) and by his son Giovanni’s clerical career, who could be identified as the bishop of Telese, Giovanni Beroardo from Palermo. The present work outlines Antonio Belguardo’s event (origins, professional training, debut, professional activity) and compares his professional downhill to the others masters and architects’one, characterized by different and social ambitions and active in some of Palermitan building yards, in whic worhed as royal head-master Antonio Belguardo.
2016
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SCADUTO, F. (2016). Principalis fabricator huius felicis urbis Panormi, in S. Montana, F. Scaduto, Antonio Belguardo a master of the late Gothic in Western Sicily and some of his contemporaries. In J.R.E. (coords.) B. Alonso Ruiz (a cura di), 1514 Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la Encrucijada (pp. 176-183). Siviglia : Uesus- Editorial Universidad de Sevilla.
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