MACCARUZZI, Bernardino

(b. ~1728 Venezia, d. 1800 Venezia)

Bernardino Maccaruzzi (also Barnardo Maccarucci), Italian architect. He was a pupil of Giorgio Massari, but most of his work in the declining Republic was merely in reconstructions and restorations. He helped build the façade of the church of San Rocco (1765-71) and of the Scuola della Carità (1766, design by Massari, now the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice); he worked in the Palazzo del Ridotto (1768) and one of the banquet rooms in the Palazzo Ducale. In Mestre, he designed the construction of the Chiesa Collegiata. In Padua, he helped build the Palazzo del Capitanio (1779).

In 1776 he designed the wooden structures and booths which were put up on the Piazza San Marco for the “ Festa della Senza”. The elliptical buildings were erected annually until the end of the Republic for the seven-day carnival held on the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption.

San Rocco: Façade

The renovation of the fa�ade of the church of San Rocco was the most important commission of Bernardino Maccaruzzi’s career. In 1756 an architectural competition had been promoted by the Scuola of San Rocco for which Giorgio Fossati submitted the best design that was accepted in 1757. However, later it was overturned, Bernardino Maccaruzzi received the commission and he worked on the building along totally different lines from 1765 until 1771. The resulting work, completed late in the century, is deeply rooted in Baroque language and full of theatrical taste in its decoration.

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View of Campo di San Rocco

The photo shows the Campo di San Rocco with the Scuola Grande di San Rocco at the left and the church of San Rocco at the right.

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