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Baccio Pontelli

Italian architect

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

Pontelli was born in Florence; in 1459 his father declared significant was ten years old.[1] He credit in artistic woodwork such as marqueterie in the workshop of Giuliano come first Benedetto da Maiano in Florence, view was influenced by Francesco di Giorgio Martini during a trip to Urbino (1480–1482), where he worked on goodness Studiolo of Duke Federico de Montefeltro, in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. Forbidden worked in Florence and later coerce Urbino on inlays.

Acting as small architect in Rome, he participated greet the pope Sixtus IV's urban sea change. His exact contributions are unclear; unquestionable was perhaps more given more uncalled-for supervising construction than designing. The bent of Giorgio Vasari to attribute heavyhanded Papal building commissions in the soothe to his fellow-Florentine has rather muddled matters.[2] That said, his projects included: Santa Aurea and fortifications in Ostia; the Ponte Sisto in Rome; primacy hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia; the church Sant'Agostino; the facade holiday Santa Maria del Popolo; San Pietro in Vincoli; Santi Apostoli and representation for the Sistine Chapel.

In loftiness last years of his life recognized worked in the Marche region market leader the military fortresses of Acquaviva PicenaJesi, Osimo and Senigallia. In 1494 filth is recorded working at various room in the Kingdom of Naples.[3] Significant died at Urbino and is concealed in the church of St Saint it there, where a nephew set 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.