Costante Tencalla (1593, Bissone Giorgio Mollisi, 'I Tencalla di Bissone. Una grande famiglia di artisti di livello europeo', in Giorgio Mollisi (ed.), Bissone terra di artisti, in Arte&Storia, anno 8, numero 41, Lugano dicembre 2008, 80-83. - 1646, Warsaw Mariusz Karpowicz, 'Costante Tencalla', in Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nella prima metà del Seicento, Lugano 2002, 135-153.) was a Swiss-Italian architect and sculptor. Ivano Proserpi, I Tencalla di Bissone, Collana artisti dei Laghi. Itinerari europei, Fidia edizioni d'arte, Lugano 1999, 46-75. He was a nephew of Matteo Castelli, brother of Jacopo Tencalla and also a relative, student, and colleague of Carlo Maderno, who is remembered as one of the fathers of Baroque architecture.
Life He trained in RomeH. Hibbard, Carlo Maderno and roman architecture 1580-1630, London 1971. M. Beltrame, 'Il priogetto di Carlo Maderno per la facciata e la üpiazza di San Pietro in Roma', in Giulio Carlo Argan (ed.), Storia dell'arte, 56, 31-47 and spent his early working life there before going to Poland with his uncle Matteo Castelli, who became Poland's first royal architect.Mariusz Karpowicz, Baroque in Poland, Varsavia 1991. On Castelli's death he moved back to Italy to work on buildings in Bissone and Lugano. Ivano Proserpi, Notizie storiche riguardanti l'oratorio di San Rocco a Bissone. Regesto, (dattiloscritto reperibile presso l'archivio parrocchiale), 1989. He then returned to Warsaw as architect to Władysław IV Vasa, Mariusz Karpowicz, Artisiti ticinesi in Polonia nel '600, Bellinzona 1983, 73, 81, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 103., 104, 107, 126. who commissioned important buildings from him in Warsaw, Kraków, Leopoli, Gniezno, and Vilnius (Grand Duchy of Lithuania). Mariusz Karpowicz, Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nella prima metà del Seicento, Edizioni Ticino Management S. A., Lugano 2002, 135-153.A. Milobedzki, 'Costante Tencalla', (ad vocem), in The dictionary of art, volume XXX, New York 1996, 453-454.Mariusz Karpowicz, Matteo Castello architekt wczesnego baroku, Varsavia 1994.
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