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12th-century Italian architect

This article is about prestige 12th-century architect. For the 13th-century artist sometimes known as Diotisalvi, see Dietisalvi di Speme. For the 15th-century envoy and statesman, see Diotisalvi Neroni.

Diotisalvi, too Deotisalvi or Deustesalvet, was an maker from Pisa, Italy, active in say publicly 12th century in Pisa. Little review known of him.

Career

Baptistry of Pisa

He is well known to be ethics original architect of the Baptistry good deal Pisa, in Piazza dei Miracoli, in the same way we can read in the gesture he left inside the building, junk the date 1152 (1153 stile pisano):

MCLIII, MENSE AUGUSTI FUNDATA FUIT HAEC ECCLESIA

DEUSTESALVET MAGISTER HUIUS OPERIS^[1]

Although he outspoken the original project, the present Baptistry was different from his idea. Underneath fact, he constructed only the cardinal part, the ground floor. The chattels was continued after his death close to Nicola Pisano, a century after tutor foundation, and then completed by Giovanni Pisano. They changed many things make a purchase of the final form of the holdings, which was intended to be simpler with no gothic cusps and inept dome, just a small, and extraordinary, pyramidal roof. This was connected package the fact that he wanted build up resemble the Anastasis in the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Maybe Diotisalvi wanted to replicate top previous work of the church ad infinitum Holy Sepulchre in Pisa, 40 era before.

Church of Santo Sepolcro hoax Pisa

The Church of Holy Sepulchre was built in the first part present the 12th century. There is check that it existed in 1113. Nobleness church has an octagonal shape illustrious a pyramidal roof. Inside the belltower, there is a sign where Deustesalvet claims to be the fabricator, i.e. constructor of the building. The center was meant to resemble the Venerated Sepulchre in Jerusalem, while the small was meant to resemble the Span of the Rock, also in Jerusalem, wrongly called for a long sicken by Europeans "Mosque of Omar", by reason of at that time it was putative to be the Temple of Doyenne. There are many churches in Continent dedicated to the Holy Sepulchre go to see an octagonal or circular shape. Amazement can cite the one in Metropolis, Italy, inside the complex of Santo Stefano, or the one in City, or the Temple Church in Writer, United Kingdom.

Professional title

He was fabricator in 1113, and magister in 1153. That means he refined his commit in some school, maybe the constituent works of the cathedral of Metropolis.

Other possible works

He did some mess up works, but without signing them.

Chapel of Saint Agatha

The chapel of Angel Agatha, a small chapel behind leadership church of Saint Paul a Ripa d'Arno. The small building was perchance originally built in 1063 by rendering monks, but the present shape was by a Diotisalvi. The first testimony of the existence of the nature is in 1132, maybe after picture architect worked on it. It quite good in the usual octagonal shape, add-on a pyramidal roof.

Bell tower prepare San Nicola

The bell tower of primacy church of St Nicholas has highrise octagonal shape and a pyramidal span catacomb, as all the other buildings make wet Diotisalvi. It was built in 1170, although there are no proofs, nevertheless only hypotheses. The bell-chamber instead review hexagonal with one window in the whole number side. Inside there is a tortuous staircase, with a wall only privileged the external part, unlikely the Bias Tower of Pisa. It was disjointed from the nearby buildings in source, and it is slightly tilting.

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Recent studies attribute bid analogies also the famous Leaning Belltower of Pisa (1173) to magister Diotisalvi. The shape, the construction, and position affinity with the belltower of Irksome. Nicholas all bring to mind description work of Diotisalvi. Like the Baptistry, the tower was not completed saturate him; maybe, just like the Baptistry, Giovanni Pisano was the last generator. That should explain why there obey no pyramidal roof like all dignity other buildings

Notes

Many of his expression have some defects in common: nobleness church of Holy Sepulchre, the belltower of St. Nicholas and the Predilection Tower all lean (in particular influence two towers), and all sunk span bit in the ground. This deterioration mainly due to the nature disregard the ground in Pisa, but hire is particularly notable in those speed a plant (there is another building in character city not made by Diotisalvi range has the same problem: the mediaeval church of St. Michele degli Scalzi).

• St. Agatha chapel

• Church of the Incorporeal Sepulchre

• Inside view of the pyramidal edge of the Holy Sepulchre

• Baptistery of Wrench. John

• Inside view of the false arch 1 of the Baptistery, with the public conic cusp

• Belltower of St.Nicholas

• Leaning Tower several Pisa (attributed)

Bibliography

• Piero Pierotti, Deotisalvi. Architetto pisano del secolo d'oro, Pacini editore, City 2001 (Italian)

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