Curated category
Italian Renaissance architects
- Leonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on the 15th of April 1452 near the Tuscan hill town of Vinci. His father, a notary named Ser Piero, and his mother, a…
- MichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni arrived in the world on the 6th of March 1475 within the small town of Caprese.
- Bartolommeo BerrecciBartolomeo Berrecci was born in 1480 within the town of Pontassieve, Italy. His first lessons came from his father who practiced architecture himself.
- Francesco FiorentinoFrancesco Fiorentino appeared in the city of Kraków during February 1502. Prince Sigismund summoned this Italian architect from Florence to his court.
- RaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in March 1483 or the 6th of April 1483.
- Juan Bautista de ToledoJuan Bautista de Toledo died on the 19th of May 1567 in Madrid. He was buried in the choir of the primitive Convento de Santo Tomás, Iglesia de la Santa Cruz.
- Leon Battista AlbertiLeon Battista Alberti was born on the 14th of February 1404 in Genoa. His father, Lorenzo di Benedetto Alberti, was a wealthy Florentine who had been exiled…
- Filippo BrunelleschiFilippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi entered the world in Florence, Italy, during 1377. His father worked as a notary and civil servant named Brunellesco…
- Aristotele FioravantiRidolfo Fioravanti entered the world around 1415 in Bologna. His family belonged to a lineage of architects and hydraulic engineers who shaped the city's…