Luciano Laurana
Luciano Laurana (Zara, 1420 - Pesaro, 1479) is a Dalmatian architect famous for the ducal palate of Urbin which commissions to him Frederic de Montefeltro in 1465.
Biography
One knows little over his first years of training. It perhaps passed to Naples on the building site of the triumphal arch of Alphonse V of Aragon where work Francesco Laurana, his relative whose name also comes from the Latinization of Vrana in Laurana, their place of origin in Dalmatie then under Venetian domination.
It is noted then with Mantoue about 1465 when it contacts Leon Battista Alberti.
In 1466, one finds it in Urbin, where the duke Frederic de Montefeltro asks him to transform his residence, two old Gothic buildings, in a city in the shape of palate Renaissance (the ducal Palais of Urbin). Cosimo Rosselli, Roberto Valturio, Frederico Barocci and Francesco di Giorgio Martini carry out of them decorations, this last resuming work of the whole in 1472.
In Pesaro, it is occupied in 1476 of the Rocca Costanza , by enriching it by new architectural reasons, by seeking an increase in luminosity, following Filippo Brunelleschi and the painter Piero della Francesca.
Works
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