Michelozzo michelozzi biography

Michelozzo was an Italian architect and sculptor.
Michelozzo (born 1396, Florence [Italy]—died 1472, Florence) was an architect and sculptor, notable in the development of Florentine Renaissance.
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, known mononymously as Michelozzo, was an Italian architect and sculptor.

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Michelozzo, the feisty architect

The Italian Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi (or Mick for friends) was born in Florence in 1396. He was considered one of the pioneers of renaissance and was favored by Cosimo de' Medici himself. His most fruitful years as a sculptor and architect were indeed those spent in the service of the rulers of Florence. In 1461, aged 65, Michelozzo was invited by the government of the Republic of Ragusa to work primarily on the city walls of Dubrovnik and Ston.

When it comes to military architecture, the man was a genius. He improved the scarp walls of the northern stretch, inclining them because of the new aspects of warfare, introduction of cannons and other deadly weaponry. He did a great job with fort Minčeta as well, adding a circular protective wall around the main quadrilateral tower. His reputation as a skilled architect and engineer was once again proven in practice.

The masterpiece of his brief stay in Dubrovnik surely has to be fort Bokar. Fort Bokar is one of Europe's earliest casemate fortifications. The term casemate means a fortified g

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MICHELOZZO, MICHELOZZI

MENGANTI, ALESSANDRO
MENGANTI, ALESSANDRO (ltal.). Mint-engraver at Bologna, appointed on 18. January 1573, in succession to Gerolamo Faccioli; he was still in office in 1585, and he cut the dies of all the Bolognese coins of Gregory XIII. (1572-1585) and possibly some of Sixtus V. By Menganti, who was also a famous Sculptor, is the statue of Pope Gregory XIII. in the public square of Bologna; and other works in marble and bronze. He was a pupil of Michel Angelo, and is said to have avoided the exaggerations of this...
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MENGER, JOHAN PHILIP
MENGER, JOHAN PHILIP (Dutch). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Utrecht in 1818, died there on 20. September 1895. He was a pupil of David van der Kellen and studied also sculpture under Louis Royer at the Royal Academy of Sculpture at Amsterdam. At the age of eighteen or nineteen, he engraved his first medals, in commemoration of P. C. Hooft, and Prince William George Frederick of Nassau, who died at Padua in 1799. In 1839 the young artist obtained a silver medal, and i

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Biography

Florentine architect and sculptor (sometimes incorrectly called Michelozzo Michelozzi). As a sculptor he worked for Ghiberti (on both his sets of doors for the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral) and in partnership with Donatello (1425-c.1433). With Donatello he produced three major tombs — those of anti-pope John XXIII (Baptistery, Florence), Cardinal Brancacci (Sant'Angelo a Nilo, Naples), and Bartolommeo Aragazzi (Montepulciano Cathedral, but now disassembled; two angels are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London). His style was vigorous and forthright.

In his later career Michelozzo worked mainly as an architect, and he ranks as one of the leading figures of the generation after Brunelleschi, whom he succeeded as capomaestro at Florence Cathedral (1446). His most famous building is the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence (begun 1444), often described as the first Renaissance palace. In addition to the many villas he designed for the Medici, Michelozzo designed the San Giorgio Maggiore Library in 1433 for Cosimo de' Medici. Between 1437 and 1452, he rebuilt the