Trident és Erdély között
Between Trident and Transylvania

Domenico da Bologna and Francesco Chiaramella da Gandino, Two Italian Architects in the Early Modern Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The study discusses the activity of two Italian architects from the 16th century: Domenico da Bologna and Francesco Chiaramella da Gandino, whose careers had several things in common. They both started to work in Italy, then eventually they were hired in the service of Ferdinand of Habsburg in Vienna, from where they were sent to Hungary and finally to Transylvania. The bishops of Trento played an important role as intermediates in sending them to Vienna. Da Bologna and Chiaramella were military architects in the first place, whose Transylvanian activity, although barely known today, must have had an important impact on the development of Renaissance architecture in Transylvania.

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