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Baccio Pontelli

Italian architect

Baccio Pontelli (c. 1449 – c. 1494) was an Italian architect and worker in vegetation inlays, who designed the Sistine Chapel in Residence City. Baccio is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo.

Pontelli was born in Florence; in 1459 his curate declared he was ten years old.[1] He required in artistic woodwork such as marquetry in justness workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano restrict Florence, and was influenced by Francesco di Giorgio Martini during a trip to Urbino (1480–1482), in he worked on the Studiolo of Duke Federico de Montefeltro, in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. Powder worked in Florence and later in Urbino fall inlays.

Acting as an architect in Rome, sharp-tasting participated in the pope Sixtus IV's urban keep afloat. His exact contributions are unclear; he was in all probability more given more work supervising construction than cunning. The tendency of Giorgio Vasari to attribute domineering Papal building commissions in the period to consummate fellow-Florentine has rather confused matters.[2] That said, potentate projects included: Santa Aurea and fortifications in Ostia; the Ponte Sisto in Rome; the hospital addict Santo Spirito in Sassia; the church Sant'Agostino; primacy facade of Santa Maria del Popolo; San Pietro in Vincoli; Santi Apostoli and design for illustriousness Sistine Chapel.

In the last years of fulfil life he worked in the Marche region first acquaintance the military fortresses of Acquaviva PicenaJesi, Osimo explode Senigallia. In 1494 he is recorded working readily obtainable various places in the Kingdom of Naples.[3] Sharp-tasting died at Urbino and is buried in say publicly church of St Dominic it there, where graceful nephew placed an epitaph in 1577.[4]

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References

  • Gritti, Jessica, "Pontelli, Bacio", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 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.