Guglielmo Della Porta

Guglielmo Della Porta
Born 1515
Porlezza
Died 1577
Rome
Nationality Italian
Movement Renaissance

Guglielmo Della Porta (Porlezza, 1515 - Rome, 1577) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Son of the sculptor Cristoforo and Caterina, began his artistic training under the guidance of his uncle Giovanni Giacomo, who takes him on his construction site of the Cathedral of Milan and assigned him the task of sculpturing and reinterpreting the works of Leonardo da Vinci[1] until about 1530.

Later he moved with his uncle in Genoa where he perfected his design under the guidance of the painter Perin del Vaga in the works for Villa del Principe, Palazzo di Andrea Doria.

References

  1. In the study of Maria Gibellino Krasceninnicowa we learn that the drawings and writings of Guglielmo are collected in two volumes in gold parchment with the words: "Opera di F. G. Della Porta", author of the collection is Giuseppe Ghezzi, a relative of Della Porta. The drawings show his complex personality, showing us the pictorial side of his art, and in them we feel the breath of classical Roman sculpture. Ghezzi was in possession of the important code of Leonardo: the manuscript the nature, weight and motion of water then said "Codex Hammer" from the name of the financier who bought it. Of this code, owned by Guglielmo at Leonardo's death, the traces were lost and reappeared when the Ghezzi in 1717 decided to sell it to a rich Englishman, Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, whose heirs sold it to financier Armand Hammer for more than five million dollars

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