Filarete (redirected from Sforzinda)

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.

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Filarete

 orig. 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.