Andreas Musalus
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Andreas Musalus
| Andreas Musalus | |
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.jpg) A portrait of Andreas Musalus. |
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| Born | Andreas Mousalos 1665/6 Candia, Crete |
| Died | 1721 Venice, Italy |
| Occupation | Mathematics, Architecture, Philosophy |
| Ethnicity | Greek[1] |
| Literary movement | Italian Renaissance |
Andreas Musalus (Latin: Andreas Musalus, Italian: Andrea Musalo, Greek: Ανδρέας Μουσάλος; ca. 1665/6 – ca. 1721)[2] was a Greek[1] professor of mathematics, philosopher and architectural theorist who was largely active in Venice during the 17th-century Italian Renaissance.
Biography
Andreas Musalus was born to a noble Greek[1] family in 1665, in Candia[2][3] on the island of Crete.[4] His family were originally from Constantinople[3] and his father was a doctor by profession. Due to the Ottoman conquest of Crete the family migrated to Venice when Andreas was an infant. Andreas began studying in his adolescence, he ultimately studied law and mathematics at the University of Padua. Whilst in Padua Musalus studied the rhetoric of Pietro Paolo Calore and learned mathematics from Filippo Vernade, the Lieutenant General of Artillery of the Republic of Venice. Vernade taught Musalus mathematics of military architecture. Musalus continued his studies and made such immense progress in mathematics that in 1697 at the age of thirty two years, he was assigned to teach Mathematics in Venice. He married in the year 1707, he died in 1721, in the region of Venice.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Convegno internazionale nuove idee e nuova arte nell '700 italiano, Roma, 19-23 maggio 1975. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. 1977. p. 429. OCLC 4666566. "Nicolò Duodo riuniva alcuni pensatori ai quali Andrea Musalo, oriundo greco, professore di matematica e dilettante di architettura chiariva le nuove idée nella storia dell’arte."
- ^ a b c Pedrocco, Filippo (1994). Chiesa dei Gesuati: arte e devozione. Marsilio. p. 8. ISBN 88-317-6149-8, 9788831761499. "LA COSTRUZIONE DELLA NUOVA CHIESA Il primo progetto fu elaborato dal matematico candiota Andrea musalo (Candia 1666 - Venezia 1721), che propose un edificio impostato su due cappelle di fondo, due pulpiti e un presbiterio sormontato da ..."
- ^ a b Temanza, Tommaso (1963). Civiltà Veneziana. Fonti e Testi. Serie 1: Fonti e Documenti per la Storia dell'Arte Veneta. Istituto per la collaborazione cultural. p. 18. OCLC 638292555. "Ritrovavasi in quei tempi in molto credito in Venezia Andrea Musalo 1 cittadino Veneziano, ma oriundo di Candia (la di cui famiglia è antichis. ma e fu in gran preggio in Costantinopoli presso gli imperatori d'Oriente co' quali strinse"
- ^ Brusegan, Marcello (2004). Guida insolita ai misteri, ai segreti, alle leggende e alle curiosità delle chiese di Venezia. Newton & Compton. p. 191. ISBN 88-541-0030-7 9788854100305. "Un primo disegno della chiesa settecentesca fu delineato da Andrea Musalo, un matematico originario di Creta, ma la sua morte pose fine al progetto che fu poi affidato a colui che lo avrebbe successivamente fatto diventare la splendida ..."
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