Pietro Francesco Carlone
| Pietro Francesco Carlone | |
|---|---|
| Born | Before 1607 |
| Died | 1681 or 1682 Garsten |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Known for | Abbeys |
Pietro Francesco Carlone (Before 1607 – 1681–82), or Peter Franz Carlone, from the Leoben branch of the Carlone family, was an early Baroque architect who was best known for building abbeys.
Carlone was born some time before 1607, from a family of builders and later Burgers of Leoben. He probably began his career in 1625 as an assistant to his father. Stories about his being involved in disturbances and serving a jail term as a youth are not clearly documented.
In 1631 Carlone was resident in Röthelstein, where in 1650 he was described as a master stonemason. He worked among other projects on abbey buildings in Gurk (1637) and Göss (from 1652). In 1671 an order for sheet copper shows he was in Passau, in 1677 he was in Garsten, Judenburg and Seckau. In 1678 he was again in Garsten, where he made the designs for his sons to build the monastery church (1685–1693).
Pietro Francesco Carlone died in Garsten. The year of his death is disputed, with different sources giving 1680, 1681 or 1682. He had followed the footsteps of his father, from whom he had learned the craft. In the same way he brought his children into his building company. They first worked as his assistants, later as employees and representatives of the enterprise, and continued the business after his death.
Pietro Francesco Carlone was mainly committed to abbey building. He worked during the Counter-Reformation and revival of the Catholic Church, undertaking work for the Jesuit order (1568–1584) using the architecture of baroque churches throughout Europe as a model. Like other builders and stucco-workers in his family, including his generation and the next, Carlone built in the so-called "Jesuit style". However, the Carlones in Austria followed the spread in northern Italy of the pilaster style of church with galleries, barrel vault, straight chancel without transept and twin-tower facade. The innovative element of "Carlone" churches is not so much the design, but rather the opulent splendor of the stucco decorations.
The first buildings associated with the name of Pietro Francesco Carlone are the chapel dedicated to St. Sebastian in Frohnleiten in 1625, and a bathhouse created in 1631 for the Congregation of the Jesuits in Leoben.
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