Paolo Posi
Paolo Posi (Siena, 1708-1776) was an Italian architect of the late-Baroque period. He was active in Rome, Narni, and Viterbo; for the latter towns, he built the Case del' Projetti. He helped in the restoration of the Cathedral of Naples. He designed mausoleums for Cardinal Inico Carraccioli in Aversa, cardinal Imperiali in Santo Agostino in Rome, for cardinal Caraffa in Sant'Andrea de la Fratte, and for princess Chigi in Madonna del Popolo.
Works
Posi helped with the ephemeral obsequies held in Santi Apostoli in Rome, after the death of James Stuart, the pretender to the crown of England, as well as supervising firework displays for the Colonna family. In 1767, Lorenzo Colonna commissioned Posi to design the ephemeral celebratory machine de artifizio with fireworks on the occasion of the provision of a Chinea, or richly caparisoned mule (symbol and veritable tribute) to Pope Clement XIII.[1]
It is said that Posi decorated the main altar of the church della Anime in Rome as if it had been a paga Bacchus temple, and was dismissed by the church deputies.
Nominated as architect to St. Peters and Knight of the Golden Spur, Posi helped design the Jesuit church in Sinigaglia, and the place of Abbot Farsetti in Sala. He helped rebuild the Colonna palace in Siena and rebuilt the church of Santa Caterina in Siena.
References
- Milizia, Francesco (1826). Translated by Mrs. Edward Cresy, ed. The lives of celebrated architects, ancient and modern.Volume 1. J. Taylor Architectural Library, High Holborn, London. p. 354.
- ↑ Posi, Paolo (1767). Descrizione delle Due machine di artefizio nuovamente erette nella Piazza Farnese in Occasione di presentarsi la Chinea alla Santita di N. S. Papa Clemente XIII, da sua eccellenza il Signore Lorenzo Colonna, Gran Condestabile del Regno di Napoli e Ambasciatore Straordinario del Re delle due Sicilie. Incendíate nelle due fere 28 e 29 di Giugno 1767. Inventate e dirette dal Signor Cavalier Paolo Posi, Architetto.. Generoso Salomoni, Rome.