Luca Fancelli

Luca Fancelli is a Sculpteur and a Architecte Italy N, born towards 1430, died in 1494.

Biography

Originating in Settignano close to Florence in Italy, Luca Fancelli learned the trade from tailor the stone and mason near Brunelleschi. Its life is its work comprise some remote regions and there is quarrel of experts on works which are allotted to him, in particular on the Palais Pitti of Florence of which some think that it is the architect, and that others allot to Brunelleschi. As of the 14th century, Giorgio Vasari expressed doubts on the contribution of Fancelli to the architecture of this palate which it preferably allotted to Brunelleschi.

There are all the same certified traces of work of the artist. Fancelli settled with Mantoue in 1450, with the service of the marquis Ludovic II, which employed already Pisanello, Pérugin, Corrège, Leone Battista Alberti, Giulio Romano and Rubens. Fancelli became the project superintendent and the architect with Mantoue of the Saint-Sebastien basilicas (1460) and Saint-Andrew after the death of Alberti of which it followed the architectural concepts, while bringing a personal key there (particularly visible with the Saint-Andrew basilica).

Thereafter, Frederic I {{er}} required of him to conceive a whole of rooms located in the wing known as Domus Nova of the royal palace of the family Gonzague. Fancelli worked there of 1478 with 1484, then it is known that the palate remained unfinished until the 17th century, and one loses any trace of Fancelli until his death which one can locate about 1494. ----

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