Giuliano da Maiano (c. 1432 - 1490) was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated. Events Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. ... This article should be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Benedetto da Maiano (* Florence 1442 - † Florence 1497) was an early Italian Renaissance sculptor. ...

Biography

He was born in the village of Maiano, near Fiesole, where his father was a stone-cutter who moved his family and business to Florence, where, according to Vasari, he operated a stone-mason's yard, providing mouldings and carved stone detail for construction. Giuliano showed early promise, and his father hoped at first to make of him a notary, but his talent for sculpture and design won out. His first designs were for the intarsia inlay in the fittings for the New Sacristy of the Duomo, Florence, carried out in collaboration with Benedetto in 1463-1465, where Giuliano carved the wooden bas-reliefs of putti and garlands in the frieze, and for works in Palazzo Vecchio in collaboration with Benedetto, notably the ceiling in octagonal compartments and the white marble doorcase in Benedetto's Sala d'Audienza intarsia in the Sala dei Dugento (1472-1477) and in the Sala del Giglio. In 1480 he finished a tabernacle of the Madonna dell'Olivo for the Cathedral of Prato, executed in collaboration with his brothers Benedetto and Giovanni. Florence as seen from Fiesole Fiesole is a town and comune (township) of Firenze province in the Italian region of Tuscany, 43°49N 11°18E, on a famously scenic height 346 m (1140 ft) above Florence, 8 km (5 mi) NE of that city. ... Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ... Giorgio Vasaris selfportrait Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ... This article should be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church, or Duomo, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence, noted for its distinctive dome. ... Palazzo Vecchio The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. ... the Duomo with the statue of Giuseppe Mazzoni. ...

As an architect he was virtually the house architect for the Pazzi, rebuilding Palazzo Pazzi (1462–1472)^[1], the main seat of the family, for Jacopo de' Pazzi. For the Strozzi, at the Palazzo dello Strozzino he added a piano nobile (1462-1465) in the manner of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi to a ground floor that had been begun by Michelozzo; he is also often credited with Palazzo Antinori. In Siena, he built Palazzo Spannocchieschi (c. 1475), in the Florentine manner of delicately rusticated facade and twinned arch-headed windows within a blind arch that had been established in Florence by Alberti's Palazzo Rucellai and Michelozzo's Palazzo Medici-Riccardi. Between the two cities, at San Gimignano, Giuliano is credited with enlarging the Romanesque church of Santa Maria and building the chapel of Santa Fina, in collaboration with Benedetto; at Arezzo, where Benedetto built the Portico of S. Maria delle Grazie, Giuliano built the cloister of the Badia. The Pazzi family were Tuscan nobles who had become bankers in Florence in the 14th century. ... Strozzi, the name of an ancient and noble Florentine family, which was already famous in the 14th century. ... Courtyard of Palazzo Medici Riccardi. ... Palazzo Medici in Florence. ... San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hilltop town in Tuscany, Italy, about a 35-minute drive northwest of Siena or southwest of Florence. ... Arezzo (Latin Arretium) is an old city in central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. ...

The Badia of Fiesole influenced the design of the Brunelleschiesque church of Santa Maria del Sasso, outside Bibbiena, built in 1486-87,^[2] where documents show craftsmen were presenting their bills to Giuliano for countersigning.^[3] The monks of San Marco were in charge, but the patron was a Medici, for stemme for the church were being painted even as construction progressed; doubtless it was Lorenzo de' Medici himself who paid the expenses. The rock for which the church is named, site of an apparition of the Virgin Mary, rises through the floor at the domed crossing, where Giuliano's delicate domed baldachin identifies and protects the sanctified spot. Badia (Italian: Badia; German: Abtei; Ladin: Badia) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Bolzano-Bozen in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. ... Filippo Brunelleschi, 1377 - 1446, was the first great Florentine architect of the Italian Renaissance. ... Bibbiena is a town and comune of the province of Arezzo in Tuscany. ... For the board game, see Medici (board game). ... A portrait of Lorenzo de Medici by Girolamo Macchietti. ... The Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller at Rhodes under a canopy of estate, on a dais: there is a cushion under his feet Margaret Beaufort, Queen Mother, at prayer, by an anonymous artist, about 1500 Engraving of the Gnadenaltar in the Vierzehnheiligen Basilica, Bad Staffelstein, Bavaria. ...

His established reputation elicited commissions in Rome, Loreto (Basilica della Casa Santa), Faenza (at the Duomo, 1474-1486), in Recanati, where Lorenzo sent him to build Palazzo Venier for Cardinal Anton Giacomo Venier, and in other locations in the Marche. Above all, from 1487 he worked in Naples, where Alfonso, then duca di Calabria, employed him at the Villa di Poggio Reale (1487-1488, demolished).^[4] Giuliano erected the marble Porta Capuana closely flanked by the cylindrical towers of the Castello; it takes the form of a triumphal arch with Corinthian columns and an elaborate sculptural program; in the Sala Grande of the Castello he carved bas-reliefs above the doors, within and without (Vasari). Loreto is a hilltown and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche. ... Façade of the Basilica della Casa Santa. ... Faenza is an old Italian cathedral town, situated 50 km southeast of Bologna. ... Recanati is a town of about 20,650 inhabitants in the Marche region of Italy. ... Alphonso II of Naples (November 4, 1448 - December 18, 1495) was King of Naples from January 25, 1494 to 1495. ... Alfonso II of Naples. ... Porta Capuana in Naples. ... A triumphal arch is a structure in the shape of a monumental archway, usually built to celebrate a victory in war. ... The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ...

He died in Naples in 1490, and Alfonso himself supplied mourners for the funeral. For other uses see, Naples (disambiguation) and Napoli (disambiguation) Location of the city of Naples (red dot) within Italy. ...

Notes

References

• Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite de' più eccelenti architetti, pittori...: Giuliano da Maiano
• [http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/italy/siena/bank/bank.html Palazzo

Further reading

• Lorenzo Cendali, Giuliano e Benedetto da Maiano (Sancasciano) 1926. Still the standard monograph.
• Cornelius von Fabriczy, "Giuliano da Maiano" Jahrbuch der preussischen Kunstsammlungen 24 (1903) Spannocchieschi]