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    [anˈtɔːnjo di ˈpjɛːtro aver(u)ˈliːno]; c. 1400 – c. 1469), known as Filarete (Italian: [filaˈrɛːte]; from Ancient Greek: φιλάρετος, meaning "lover of excellence")...
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    2014). "Filarète, Antonio Averlino detto il". Treccani.it (in Italian). International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (1993). Il Filarete. Reproduced...
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    link between the old Visconti dynasty and the Sforza lineage. The stay of Filarete, beginning in 1451, was the first significant Renaissance presence in Milan...
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    Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of...
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    15th-century North Italian architect Antonio Averlino (also known as "Filarete"), a theory broadly consistent with the radiocarbon dating. Many hypotheses...
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    under the influence of Roman Quattrocento artists such as Fra Angelico and Filarete. During the 1450s he began working at the French court, where he counted...
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    Renaissance was hypnotized by one city type which for a century and a half—from Filarete to Scamozzi—was impressed upon all utopian schemes: this is the star-shaped...
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    park. Notable architects involved in the project included the Florentine Filarete, who was commissioned to build the high central entrance tower, and the...
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  • anchorite (b. 1043) Bisantius Guirdeliku, Italian nobleman (patrikios) Filarete of Calabria, Sicilian monk and saint Hārūn ibn Malik al-Turk, Turkic military...
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  • Florence, as mentioned by Sphrantzes and confirmed by its depiction in the Filarete Doors of St. Peter's Basilica. According to a handful of surviving examples...
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    "paradise", an idea well established in the mid-15th century and described by Filarete, who had designed the castello in Milan. In several ways the mulberry tree...
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    centers such as Milan and Venice. It was due to Francesco Sforza that Filarete worked in Bergamo (in the cathedral, c. 1455), and even a masterpiece like...
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    additions to the doorways at all, such was his "pride and arrogance". Filarete, perhaps echoing a comment by Alberti, wrote that the paired figures on...
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    progressively. In the 1450s and 1460s humanist scholars such as Nicolas Cusanus, Filarete and Bartolomeo Facio referred to him in superlatives: 'the greatest', 'the...
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  • century. Commissioned by Francesco Sforza in 1456 and designed by Antonio Filarete it is among the first examples of Renaissance architecture in Lombardy...
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  • century. Commissioned by Francesco Sforza in 1456 and designed by Antonio Filarete it is among the first examples of Renaissance architecture in Lombardy...
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    militare, the third of the Quattrocento, after Leone Battista Alberti's and Filarete's; he worked on it for decades and finished sometime after 1482; it circulated...
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    of Palmanova. It is a derivative of ideal circular cities, namely of Filarete's imaginary Sforzinda. In the early 20th century, during the fascist government...
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    the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020. "Fashion Week: le quattro settimane della moda nel mondo" (in Italian). Retrieved 28 December...
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    V, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, in Rome. Together with Antonio Filarete, Simone also made a set of bronze doors for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome...
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    Renaissance was hypnotized by one city type which for a century and a half—from Filarete to Scamozzi—was impressed upon all utopian schemes: this is the star-shaped...
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    central portal has the Renaissance bronze door by Antonio Averulino (called Filarete) (1455), enlarged to fit the new space. The southern door, the Door of...
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    1865)[citation needed] Giuseppe Ferraris [it] (1791 Torino – 1869) Signature: F· Filarete (about 1400 – 1469) Ettore Lorenzo Frapiccini [it] (born 1957 in Buenos...
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    Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Donato Bramante, but most likely Filarete's Trattato di architettura. Other Russian researchers noted a resemblance...
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    a centralized model city, with streets leading to a central piazza, or Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Aver(u)lino, c. 1400-c. 1469) designing a round city...
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    Major architectural theorists of the Enlightenment include Julien-David Le Roy, Abbé Marc-Antoine Laugier, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Robert Adam, James...
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  • San Giovanni and the Porta Savonarola, two gates to the city of Padua. Filarete (c. 1400– c. 1469), architect, sculptor and writer. He wrote an important...
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  • was hypnotised by one city type which for a century and a half – from Filarete to Scamozzi – was impressed upon utopian schemes: this is the star-shaped...
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    pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 468-469. Milan Tourism Site entry on Parini Monument....
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  • became the Spedale della Nunciata. Designed by the renowned architect Filarete and built by the engineer Guiniforte Solari (responsible for the courtyard...
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