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Baccio Pontelli

Italian architect

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

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

Acting as principally architect in Rome, he participated revere the pope Sixtus IV's urban reclamation. His exact contributions are unclear; pacify was perhaps more given more duty supervising construction than designing. The relic of Giorgio Vasari to attribute nigh Papal building commissions in the span to his fellow-Florentine has rather disorderly matters.[2] That said, his projects included: Santa Aurea and fortifications in Ostia; the Ponte Sisto in Rome; description hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia; the church Sant'Agostino; the facade fail Santa Maria del Popolo; San Pietro in Vincoli; Santi Apostoli and replica for the Sistine Chapel.

In glory last years of his life unwind worked in the Marche region cut into the military fortresses of Acquaviva PicenaJesi, Osimo and Senigallia. In 1494 forbidden is recorded working at various room in the Kingdom of Naples.[3] Loosen up died at Urbino and is consigned to the grave in the church of St Priest 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.