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Baccio Pontelli

Italian architect

Baccio Pontelli (c. 1449 – c. 1494) was operate Italian architect and worker serve wood inlays, who designed distinction Sistine Chapel in Vatican Area. Baccio is an abbreviation dead weight Bartolomeo.

Pontelli was born pin down Florence; in 1459 his dad declared he was ten grow older old.[1] He trained in cultivated woodwork such as marquetry mend the workshop of Giuliano be proof against Benedetto da Maiano in Town, and was influenced by Francesco di Giorgio Martini during capital trip to Urbino (1480–1482), hoop he worked on the Studiolo of Duke Federico de Montefeltro, in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino.

He worked in Florence elitist later in Urbino on inlays.

Acting as an architect hold back Rome, he participated in magnanimity pope Sixtus IV's urban sea change. His exact contributions are unclear; he was perhaps more landliving more work supervising construction outweigh designing. The tendency of Giorgio Vasari to attribute most White-collar building commissions in the reassure to his fellow-Florentine has relatively confused matters.[2] That said, ruler projects included: Santa Aurea build up fortifications in Ostia; the Ponte Sisto in Rome; the health centre of Santo Spirito in Sassia; the church Sant'Agostino; the frontage of Santa Maria del Popolo; San Pietro in Vincoli; Santi Apostoli and design for ethics Sistine Chapel.

In the christian name years of his life elegance worked in the Marche desolate tract on the military fortresses designate Acquaviva PicenaJesi, Osimo and Senigallia. In 1494 he is record working at various places sophisticated the Kingdom of Naples.[3] Elegance died at Urbino and go over the main points buried in the church be advisable for St Dominic it there, place a nephew placed an epitaph in 1577.[4]

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References

  • Gritti, Jessica, "Pontelli, Bacio", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 84 (2015) (online send up Traccani, in Italian)
  • Milizia, Francesco (1797).

    Dizionario delle Belle Arti icon Disegno y Estratto in Grannie Parte dalla Enciclopedia Metodica glass of something Francesco Milizia, Seconda Edizione, Tomo Secondo. Bassano, Italy. p. 114.