Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439-1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist - in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms: "one of the most interesting later Quattrocento architects".
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Extract from a notebook of Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 1470
Fortress of San Leo
St John the Baptist, 1464 at Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena
Santa Maria delle Grazie al Calcinaio, built in 1485 in Cortona
Altar at the Opera del Duomo in Siena. The angel candelabras are the work of Francesco di Giorgio.Artists from Italy 6
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439-1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist - in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms: "one of the most interesting later Quattrocento architects". As a military engineer, he executed architectural designs and sculptural projects and built almost seventy fortifications for the Federico da Montefeltro, Count of Urbino, building city walls and early examples of star-shaped fortifications.
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