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MICHELOZZO DI BARTOLOMMEO (1391-1472?) , See also:Italian sculptor, was a Florentine by See also:birth, the son of a tailor, and in See also:early See also:life a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Donatello. He worked in See also:marble, See also:bronze and See also:silver. The statue of the See also:young St See also:John over the See also:door of the Duomo at See also:Florence, opposite the See also:Baptistery, is by him; and he also made the beautiful silver statuette of the Baptist on the See also:altar-frontal of See also:San Giovanni. Michelozzo's See also:great friend and See also:patron was Cosimo dei See also:Medici, whom he accompanied to See also:Venice in 1433 during his See also:short See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile. While at Venice, Michelozzo built the library of San Giorgio See also:Maggiore, and designed other buildings there. In 1428, together with Donatello, he erected an open-See also:air See also:pulpit at an See also:angle of the See also:cathedral of St See also:Stephen at See also:Prato. The magnificent Palazzo dei Medici at Florence built by Cosimo, was designed by him; it is one of the noblest specimens of Italian 15th-See also:century See also:architecture, in which the great See also:taste and skill of the architect has combined the delicate lightness of the earlier Italian See also:Gothic with the massive stateliness of the classical See also:style. With great See also:engineering skill Michelozzo shored up, and partly rebuilt, the Palazzo Vecchio, then in a ruinous See also:condition, and added to it many important rooms and staircases. When, in 1437, through Cosimo's liberality, the monastery of San Marco at Florence was handed over to the See also:Dominicans of See also:Fiesole, Michelozzo was employed to rebuild the domestic See also:part and remodel thechurch. For Cosimo I. he designed numerous other buildings, mostly of great beauty and importance. Among these were a See also:guest-See also:house at See also:Jerusalem for the use of Florentine pilgrims, Cosimo's summer See also:villa at Careggi, and the strongly fortified See also:palace of Cafagiuolo in Mugello. For Giovanni dei Medici, Cosimo's son, he built a very large and magnificent palace at Fiesole. In spite of See also:Vasari's statement that he died at the See also:age of sixty-eight, he appears to have lived till 1472. He is buried in the monastery of San Marco, Florence. Though skilled both as a sculptor and engineer, his fame chiefly rests on his architectural See also:works, which claim for him a position of very high See also:honour even among the greatest names of the great 15th-century Florentines.
See Hans Stegmann, Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, eine kunstgeschichtliche Studie (1888) ; Fritz See also:Wolff, Michelozzo di Bartolommeo (t9oo) ; cf. also Hans See also:Semper, Donatello (1887).
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