Francesco di Giorgio
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini (baptised September 23, 1439 – 1502) was an Italian painter of the Sienese School, a sculptor, an architect and theorist, and an engineer of almost seventy military fortifications for the Duke of Urbino.
Born in Siena, as a painter he apprenticed with Vecchietta. In panels painted for cassoni he departed from the traditional representations of joyful processions in frieze-like formulas to express visions of ideal urban spaces in perspective. Francesco di Giorgio is also known for architectural designs and sculptural work for Federico III da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, for whom he built star-shaped fortifications.
He published an architectural treatise Trattato di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare sometime after 1482; he had been working on it for decades. Its projects were well in advance of completed projects at the time.
Francesco di Giorgio finished his career as architect in charge of the works at the Duomo di Siena.
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- Bertrand Gille, 1978. Les Ingénieurs de la Renaissance, Thèse Histoire, Paris, 1960. Seuil, in series Points Sciences) ISBN 2-02-004913-9
