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Filarete (fē`lärĕ`tā), c.1400–c.1465, Italian architect and sculptor, whose real name was Antonio Averlino, b. Florence. In the 1430s he went to Rome, where he studied the monuments of antiquity. His most famous project was the bronze doors for St. Peter's. Although somewhat original in style, he was not a highly skillful artist. In 1451 he was summoned to Milan by Francesco Sforza to design parts of buildings. He wrote an important treatise, Trattato di architettura, defending the principles of ancient architecture. Filareteorig. Antonio di Pietro Averlino(born c. 1400, Florence?—died c. 1469, Rome) Italian architect and sculptor. In 1451 he entered the service of the duke of Milan. He designed the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan (1457–65), which is among the first Renaissance buildings in Lombardy. He is chiefly important for his Trattato d'architettura (“Treatise on Architecture”), which describes an ideal Renaissance city called Sforzinda. Among the projects he envisioned was a tower of vice and virtue, with a brothel on the 1st floor and an astronomical observatory on the 10th. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The drawn musings on parchment of Francesco di Giorgio and narratives by Filarete discuss the process of how to build a city, in both cases under the umbrella of reflected religious dogma. 12) Oberhuber, 1971, 128, notes Klaus Schwager's thesis that the portrait is based on audience scenes depicted by Filarete and Jean Fouquet; Guazzoni, 120-21; Shearman, 1992, 128. Art theorists from Filarete (fifteenth century) to Leopoldo Cicognara (eighteenth century) to John Shearman (twentieth century) have written about the historical dissonance in the ancient-modern mix of the Paduan general's portrait, armor, and stance, about the static quality of the equestrian group, and the unduly small scale of Gattamelata in proportion to his horse. |
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