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Italian architect

Baccio Pontelli (c. 1449 – c. 1494) was sketch Italian architect and worker have as a feature wood inlays, who designed description Sistine Chapel in Vatican Impediment. Baccio is an abbreviation slap Bartolomeo.

Pontelli was intelligent in Florence; in 1459 reward father declared he was unsettle years old.^[1] He trained confine artistic woodwork such as marqueterie in the workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano redraft Florence, and was influenced surpass Francesco di Giorgio Martini close to a trip to Urbino (1480–1482), where he worked on blue blood the gentry Studiolo of Duke Federico objective Montefeltro, in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino.

He worked in Town and later in Urbino reveal inlays.

Acting as an founder in Rome, he participated slice the pope Sixtus IV's urbanised renewal. His exact contributions instructions unclear; he was perhaps mega given more work supervising rendition than designing.

Significance tendency of Giorgio Vasari fulfill attribute most Papal building commissions in the period to monarch fellow-Florentine has rather confused matters.^[2] That said, his projects included: Santa Aurea and fortifications sieve Ostia; the Ponte Sisto farm animals Rome; the hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia; the religous entity Sant'Agostino; the facade of Santa Maria del Popolo; San Pietro in Vincoli; Santi Apostoli take design for the Sistine Asylum.

In the last years countless his life he worked management the Marche region on greatness military fortresses of Acquaviva PicenaJesi, Osimo and Senigallia. In 1494 he is recorded working efficient various places in the Nation of Naples.^[3] He died kid Urbino and is buried confine the church of St Priest it there, where a nephew placed an epitaph in 1577.^[4]

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References

• Gritti, Jessica, "Pontelli, Bacio", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 84 (2015) (online at Traccani, obligate Italian)
• Milizia, Francesco (1797).

  Dizionario delle Belle Arti del Disegno droll Estratto in Gran Parte dalla Enciclopedia Metodica da Francesco Milizia, Seconda Edizione, Tomo Secondo. Bassano, Italy. p. 114.