Andrea Marchesi da Formigine, also called "Andrea da Formigine" or "Il Formigine" ( Formigine, c. 1485–1559) was an Italian architect, sculptor and carver of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bologna, Italy. Father of Jacopo da Formigine. He was born in Formigine, near

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

. He was central in the design of a palace at the site of

Santi Bartolomeo e Gaetano Santi Bartolomeo e Gaetano is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church in central Bologna; it is located near the Due Torri adjacent to the Strada Maggiore. History A church at the site dedicated to St Bartholemew had existed since the 5th centu ...

; the Palazzo Fantuzzi; Palazzo Dal Monte; and the Palazzo Bolognini Amorini Salina, all in Bologna. He reputedly helped sculpt the capitals for the portico of the latter palace with

Properzia de' Rossi Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490 Bologna – 1530 Bologna) was a ground-breaking female Italian Renaissance sculptor, the only woman to receive a biography in Vasari's ''Lives of the Artists.'' According to Vasari, she taught herself to carve by wor ...

.La patria; geografia dell' Italia: pte. 1 Provincia di Roma. 1894. Provincia
by Gustavo Chiesi, Luigi Borsari, Giuseppe Isidoro Arneudo, page 140.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Formigine, Andrea da 1480s births 1559 deaths 16th-century Italian architects Architects from Bologna