Baccio Pontelli (c. 1450 – 1492) was an Italian architect, who designed the

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in The Vatican City. Baccio is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo. Pontelli was born in

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. Passing the phase of artistic formation with

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and

Benedetto da Maiano Benedetto da Maiano (1442 – May 24, 1497) was an Italian Early Renaissance sculptor. Biography Born in the village of Maiano (now part of Fiesole), he started his career as companion of his brother, the architect Giuliano da Maiano. When he ...

in Florence, and influenced by

Francesco di Giorgio Martini 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 ...

during the trip to Urbino (1480–1482), he was an in-layer in Florence and later in Urbino. There he worked on the Studio di Federico, Palazzo Ducale. Acting as an architect in

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, he participated in the pope Sixtus IV's urban renewal. His projects included: Santa Aurea in Ostia; the Ponte Sisto in Rome; the hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia; the church Sant'Agostino; the facade of

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;

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; Santi Apostoli and design for the

. In the last years of his life he worked on the military fortresses of Ostia, Acquaviva Picena

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Osimo Osimo is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche region of Italy, in the province of Ancona. The municipality covers a hilly area located approximately south of the port city of Ancona and the Adriatic Sea. , Osimo had a total population of 35,037. ...

and

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. He died in

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pontelli, Baccio 15th-century Italian architects Architects from Florence Italian Renaissance architects 1450s births 1492 deaths