{{short description|Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect}} [[File:Ippolito scalza, san tommaso, 1587.jpg|thumb|St Thomas Apostle]] '''Ippolito Scalza''' (1532{{spaced ndash}}22 December 1617) was a sculptor and architect of the [[Italian Renaissance]], active in his native [[Orvieto]] as well as [[Todi]] and other towns in [[Umbria]].
==Biography and works== [[File:Pieta Madonna Jesus St Mary Magdalene Nicodemus.jpg|thumb|left|Group of the Pieta]] Ippolito was born in Orvieto to a family of moderate resources; his father was likely a mason in the ''Fabbrica'' (construction works) of the [[Duomo di Orvieto|Duomo of this town]].<ref>Geva, Gruppo della Pieta, page 12.</ref> Three of his siblings, Francesco, Alessandro, and Lodovico, gained training as mosaicists, sculptors, and minor architects. Of Ippolito, the first we see documented of his work is the 1554 completion of cornice molding of a chapel in the cathedral. In 1556, he completed a statue of a ''St Sebastian'' for the cathedral.<ref>Geva, Gruppo della Pieta, page 13.</ref> This apparently allowed him to apprentice in the studio of [[Michelangelo Buonaroti]]. In 1567, he succeeded [[Raffaello da Montelupo]] as architect for the Fabbrica del Duomo.<ref>Geva, Gruppo della Pieta, page 14.</ref> He next sculpted, all for the Duomo, the statue of ''St Thomas Apostle'' and, from a single piece of [[Carrara marble]], the ''Group of the Pieta'' (1570–1579) located in the Cappella della Madonna di San Brizio.<ref>Geva, Gruppo della Pieta, page 15.</ref> In addition to his many works in the cathedral the following years, he designed various buildings including:<ref>[https://www.keytoumbria.com/Orvieto/Scalza_Ippolito.html Key to Umbria], by Lynda Evans, entry on architect.</ref>
===Orvieto=== * Restoration of [[Palazzo Soliano]] (1564–70) * [[Palazzo Clementini]] (1567) * Completion of [[Palazzo Monaldeschi, Orvieto|Palazzo Monaldeschi]] (1570–4) * Refurbishments of Palazzo del Governatore (1571–98) * [[Palazzo Comunale, Orvieto|Palazzo Comunale]] (1574) * [[San Francesco, Orvieto|Convent of San Francesco]] (now part of the civic library Luigi Fumi) (1580) * Palazzo Saracinelli (1580) * Work inside and of the structure of the Chiesa dell’ Annunziata(1585–97) * Completion of Palazzo Crispo Marsciano (ca. 1586) * Water stoup, church of [[San Bernardino, Orvieto|San Bernardino]] (1588) * Palazzo Simoncelli (13th century, restored 16th century) * Palazzo Carvajal (16th century) * Restructuring of [[San Lorenzo in Vineis]] (17th century)
===Outside of Orvieto=== Monument to Baldo Farrattini, Duomo of [[Amelia, Umbria|Amelia]] (1561–4) * Palazzo Scotti, [[Narni]] (1567) * [[Santa Maria della Consolazione, Todi]] (1508–1609) * Tempio del [[Santissimo Crocifisso, Todi]] (1589–1606) * Portal of Palazzo Cesi, Todi (ca. 1600)
Soon after his death, the commune commissioned a plaque to celebrate his works.<ref>Geva, Gruppo della Pieta, page 15.</ref>
==References== *{{cite book|last=Geva|first=Angelo Maria|title=Notizia Biografica d'Ippolito Scalza by Candido Riccioni, within text of ''Il gruppo della pietà, scolpito da Ippolito Scalza nel Duomo di Orvieto''|year=1842|publisher=Tipografia Pompei|location=Orvieto|access-date=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP13ByPpWzkC }} {{reflist}}
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