Michelozzo
Michelozzo di Bartolommeo (Florence 1391 - 1472?) (sometimes called Michelozzo Michelozzi , perhaps by error), was a Architecte and Italian Sculpteur of the Renaissance.
Biography
Illustrate architect and sculptor Florentin, former assistant of Donatello, Michelozzo is engaged, on May 8th, 1461, by the Republic of Raguse (Dubrovnik) in order to supervise work of fortifications of the city. Its contribution made feel especially in the conical and lengthened casemates of Minčeta, the principal defensive tower, which are regarded as an innovation of Michelozzo, and twenty years precedent elliptic casemates carried out with Rocca d' Ostia by Baccio Pontelli.
In addition it was in charge of the development of the Médicis palate in 1444. This work constitutes still today the prototype of the Florentin palate.
It is charged by Cosme Old the, to save the extraordinary collection of Niccolò Niccoli, famous bibliophile, and to carry out his testamentary will to intend its codes with use public, to build a new library in the Couvent San Marco while continuing to enrich it and supplement it, one of the most prestigious libraries of time, all at the same time humanistic and theological which it had constituted.
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