Filippo Barigioni

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Filippo Barigioni (Rome 1690 – Rome 1753) was a sculptor and architect working in the Late Baroque tradition. His career was spent largely on papal commissions, including aqueducts and fountains, in and around Rome. As a professor of architecture at the Accademia di San Luca, his most important pupil was Carlo Marchionni.

[edit] Primary works

• Fontana della Rotonda (1711). The fountain setting for the Egyptian obelisk that faces the Pantheon was commissioned by the Albani pope Clement XI; Barigioni was commissioned to re-erect an Egyptian obelisk (the Obelisco Macuteo) in the place of the central vase of Giacomo Della Porta's fountain (1575) in the centre of Piazza della Rotonda. Luigi Amici carved the four dolphins at the base of the pedestal (illustration).

• Palazzo Testa-Piccolomini (1718)

• Aqueduct and municipal fountain at Nepi (1727). The spectacular buttressed piers of the aqueduct's high arches are still a monumental sight in Nepi. Barigioni also designed the public fountain, set into a niche in the façade of the Palazzo Communale, where the aqueduct's water issues from the heraldic tower of Pope Benedict XIII.

• Fountain in Corneto (modern Tarquinia) (1727), celebrating the Conti pope Innocent XIII.

• Façade for church of San Gregorio a Ponte Quattro Capi (1727-29). Barigioni façade for the twelfth-century church in Piazza Monte Savello, near the Teatro di Marcello. The "Bridge of the Four Heads" is the Ponte Fabricio. The church stood just outside the Roman ghetto; the inscriptions in Hebrew and Latin on the scroll were intended "che rimproverano la perfidia ed ostinazione degli Ebrei" according to Giuseppe Vasi's Itinerario 1761.^[1] (illustration).

• Church of S. Andrea delle Frati. (1736). Right transept altar with the bronze and marble image of S. Francesco di Paola (Titi-Bottari 1763). The altarpiece is by Paris Nogari, the stucco angels by Giovanni Battista Maini ^[2].

• Velletri, Palazzo Communale, (completed 1741). The town hall, begun in 1572 by Giacomo della Porta to a design by Vignola, was completed by Barigioni.

• Church of S. Marco. (1744). Interior restorations.

• Monument to Queen Maria Clementina Sobieska (1739-42), St Peter's, Rome. He designed the monument, which was executed by the sculptor Pietro Bracci on the realistic and theatrical white and colored marble funeral monument to the consort of the Stuart pretender James Francis Stuart, Maria Clementina Sobieska (1742), in the Basilica of St. Peter; the lower part of the monument was designed by Barigioni.

• Chapel of S. Fabiano, in the Church of San Sebastian on the Appian Way, erected to glorify the Albani family to designs of Carlo Maratta, was executed by Carlo Fontana, Alessandro Specchi and Barigioni (Titi-Bottari 1763)

• Church of Madonna del Pascolo (ancient church of Ss Sergius and Bacchus). High altar designed by Barigioni (Titi-Bottari 1763).

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "That reproved the perfidy and obstinance of the Hebrews". Gregorio Vasi, quoted by Roberto Piperno. The text is from Isaiah65.2: "All day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and faithless nation".
2. ^ Chiesa di S. Andrea delle Frati

[edit] References

• Filippo Titi, Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte in Roma, rivista da Giovanni Bottari, 1763 References to Barigioni
• Roberto Piperno, brief linked list of Barigioni's commissions
• http://www.jacobite.ca/gazetteer/Vatican/Clementina_monument.htm Jacobite Gazetteer: A Monument to Queen Clementina]
• Chris Nyborg, "Churches of Rome: S. Marco"
• Chris Nyborg, "Churches of Rome: S. Maria della Pietà" (S. Gregorio a Ponte Quattro Capi)