Della Volpaia Eufrosino (Frosino)
Contenu
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Nom
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Della Volpaia Eufrosino (Frosino)
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Date de naissance
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1494-1500
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Date de mort
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post 1553
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Lieu de naissance
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Florence
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 16th century
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Biographie
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Frosino or Eufrosino di Lorenzo della Volpaia was a member of a Florentine family of horologists and instrument-makers which survived for some three generations as Keepers of the public clocks of Florence before dying out through lack of heirs with the death of Girolamo di Camillo della Volpaia in November 1614. One of the seven children of Lorenzo di Benvenuto (1446-1512), the maker of two famous planetary clock (completed in 1484 and 1510) the second of which was installed in the 'Stanza dell'Orologio' in the Palazzo Vecchio , Eufrosino displayed the typical family combination of horological and instrument-making skills, adding to them sufficient competence in practical geometry to work as a cartographer. His two earliest known works, dated respectively 1516 and 1520, are combined nocturnals and horary quadrants, and in 1525 he signed an astrolabe. In about 1526 he repaired the clock of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence but had moved to Venice by 1530 where he was in the service of the Florentine ambassador. By 1532 however he was in Rome with his brother Benvenuto who had been appointed guardian of the Belvedere. Here he remained even after his brother's death in 1533 being involved in the construction of a map of the Agro Romana in 1547. Soon afterwards however he left for France, signing a surviving armillary sphere from Lyon in 1553.1
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Notes biographiques
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1 This account of Euphrosino's life is largely based on Carlo Maccagni, 'The Florentine Clock and Instrument-makers of the Della Volpaia Family', XIIe Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences, Paris, 1968, Actes Tome Xa Histoire des Instruments scientifiques, Paris, 1971, 65-73. For the 1553 armillary sphere see Gerhart Egger, Theatrum orbis terrarum: Die Erfassung des Weltbildes zur Zeit der Renaissance und der Barocks, Vienna, 1970, 26 no 11 & plat 13. An undated armillary sphere by Euphrosino was illustrated by K. H. Pohl in an advertisement included in The World in your Hands. An Exhibition of Glbes and Planetaria from the Collection of Rudolf Schmidt...London & Leiden, 1994
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Lyon
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Identifiant
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1488
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