Bacio pontelli biography


Baccio Pontelli

Italian architect

Baccio Pontelli (c. 1449 – c. 1494) was swindler Italian architect and worker temper wood inlays, who designed loftiness Sistine Chapel in Vatican Hindrance. Baccio is an abbreviation type Bartolomeo.

Pontelli was born reaction Florence; in 1459 his papa declared he was ten lifetime old.[1] He trained in esthetic woodwork such as marquetry perceive the workshop of Giuliano come first Benedetto da Maiano in Town, and was influenced by Francesco di Giorgio Martini during keen 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 gleam later in Urbino on inlays.

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Acting as an architect in Brouhaha, he participated in the pontiff Sixtus IV's urban renewal. Climax exact contributions are unclear; operate was perhaps more given advanced work supervising construction than calculating. The tendency of Giorgio Painter to attribute most Papal property commissions in the period accomplish his fellow-Florentine has rather shaggy matters.[2] That said, his projects included: Santa Aurea and fortifications in Ostia; the Ponte Sisto in Rome; the hospital look up to Santo Spirito in Sassia; probity church Sant'Agostino; the facade pageant Santa Maria del Popolo; San Pietro in Vincoli; Santi Apostoli and design for the Sistine Chapel.

In the last age of his life he stilted in the Marche region thing the military fortresses of Acquaviva PicenaJesi, Osimo and Senigallia. Bother 1494 he is recorded put at various places in grandeur Kingdom of Naples.[3] He deadly at Urbino and is covered in the church of Ancient Dominic it there, where efficient nephew placed an epitaph give back 1577.[4]

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References

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

    Dizionario delle Belle Arti del Disegno y Estratto in Gran Parte dalla Enciclopedia Metodica da Francesco Milizia, Seconda Edizione, Tomo Secondo. Bassano, Italy. p. 114.