Giovanni da Nola
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Italy
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sculptor and architect of the Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
, active in Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
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He was born in 1478, the son of a leather merchant, in Nola
Nola
Nola is a city and comune of Campania, southern Italy, in the province of Naples, situated in the plain between Mount Vesuvius and the Apennines...
near Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
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He moved to Naples where he trained under Aniello del Fiore and Benedetto da Maiano
Benedetto da Maiano
Benedetto da Maiano was an Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance.Born in the village of Maiano , he started his career as companion of his brother, the architect Giuliano da Maiano. When he reached the age of thirty he started training under the sculptor Antonio Rossellino...
. In his youth, he traveled to Rome where he was influenced by Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
, and then returned to Naples where he spent the rest of his career as sculptor and architect.
As an architect he built a number of palaces in Naples, including the Palazzo Giusso, now the home of the Naples Eastern University
Naples Eastern University
The Naples Eastern University is a university located in Naples, Italy. It was founded in 1732 and is organized in 4 Faculties...
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Many of the statues he created in Naples were removed to Spain by the viceroys then in charge of the Kingdom of Naples
Kingdom of Naples
The Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...
on behalf of the Spanish crown. When the viceroy Ramón de Cardona
Ramón de Cardona
thumb|250px|Tomb of Ramon de Cardona, by [[Giovanni da Nola]].Ramón Folc de Cardona y Anglesola was a Spanish general and politician, who served as the viceroy of Naples during the Italian Wars and commanded the Spanish forces in Italy during the War of the League of Cambrai...
died in Naples in 1522, da Nola built his tomb in Naples, but it was then transported piece by piece to Bellpuig
Bellpuig
Bellpuig is a town in the comarca of l'Urgell in Catalonia, Spain.Nowadays Bellpuig is the third most important village in the area of Urgell....
where da Cardona was buried. It remains one of the main examples of Italian renaissance art in Catalonia.
Most of his works that remain in Naples are in the churches of the city. They include:
- the tomb of Francesco Carafa in San Domenico MaggioreSan Domenico MaggioreSan Domenico Maggiore is a church in Naples, southern Italy, located in the square with the same name. The square is one of the most interesting in Naples and is on the street popularly called "Spaccanapoli" in the historic center of Naples...
- an altar in San Lorenzo MaggioreSan Lorenzo Maggiore (Naples)San Lorenzo Maggiore is a church in Naples, Italy. It is located at the precise geographic center of the historic center of the ancient Greek-Roman city, at the intersection of via San Gregorio Armeno and via dei Tribunali...
- statues of saints in San Giovanni a CarbonaraSan Giovanni a CarbonaraSan Giovanni a Carbonara is a church in Naples, southern Italy. It is located at the northern end of via Carbonara, just outside what used to be the eastern wall of the old city...
- tombs of three youths of the Severino family in the church of Santi Severino e Sossio
- an altar in Sant'Anna dei LombardiSant'Anna dei LombardiSant'Anna dei Lombardi is a church and monastic complex in Naples, southern Italy. It was originally named S. Maria di Monteoliveto and was founded in 1411 under king Ladislaus of Durazzo...
Decorations da Nola made for the royal entry
Royal Entry
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of Emperor Charles V
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...
in Naples (1535) are still to be seen on the Porta Capuana
Porta Capuana
Porta Capuana is an ancient city gate in Naples, southern Italy.In spite of the name, the portal is not the ancient gateway to the decumanus maximus, the main east-west road that once led out of Roman Naples to Capua...
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His pupils included Ferdinando Manlio
Ferdinando Manlio
Ferdinando Manlio was an Italian sculptor, architect and urban planner of the Renaissance, active in Naples. He trained under the sculptor Giovanni da Nola....
and Cola dell'Amatrice.