Sant'Agostino, Rome, 1483, possibly to a design by Leon Battista Alberti
Baccio Pontelli (c. 1449 – c. 1494) was an Italian architect and worker in wood inlays, who designed the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. Baccio is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo.
Pontelli was born in Florence; in 1459 his father declared he was ten years old.[1] He trained in artistic woodwork such as marquetry in the workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano in Florence, and was influenced by Francesco di Giorgio Martini during a trip to Urbino (1480–1482), where he worked on the Studiolo of Duke Federico de Montefeltro, in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. He worked in Florence and later in Urbino on inlays.
Acting as an architect in Rome, he participated in the pope Sixtus IV's urban renewal. His exact contributions are unclear; he was perhaps more given more work supervising construction than designing. The tendency of Giorgio Vasari to attribute most Papal building commissions in the period to his fellow-Florentine has rather confused matters.[2] That said, his projects included: Santa Aurea and fortifications in Ostia; the Ponte Sisto in Rome; the hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia; the church Sant'Agostino; the facade of Santa Maria del Popolo; San Pietro in Vincoli; Santi Apostoli and design for the Sistine Chapel.
In the last years of his life he worked in the Marche region on the military fortresses of Acquaviva Picena Jesi, Osimo and Senigallia. In 1494 he is recorded working at various places in the Kingdom of Naples.[3] He died at Urbino and is buried in the church of St Dominic it there, where a nephew placed an epitaph in 1577.[4]
The Sistine Chapel as it may have appeared in the 15th century (19th-century drawing)
BaccioPontelli (c. 1449 – c. 1494) was an Italian architect and worker in wood inlays, who designed the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. Baccio is an...
17th century Rocca Roveresca – castle of Gothic origins, restored by BaccioPontelli in 1492. It has a square plan with four large round tower. The Cathedral...
the line of the Roman ones and mostly rebuilt in the 15th century by BaccioPontelli and Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Six towers remain today. Palazzo...
present chapel, on the site of the Cappella Maggiore, was designed by BaccioPontelli for Pope Sixtus IV, for whom it is named, and built under the supervision...
Campo de' Fiori, in the rione of Parione. It was built 1489–1513 by BaccioPontelli and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder as a palace for Raffaele Cardinal...
della Rovere, perhaps under the design of the Florentine architect BaccioPontelli. The palazzo was built between 1480 and 1490 on the south side of Piazza...
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there in 1480. The author of the original design is not known, though BaccioPontelli has been proposed. In 1656–67 Pope Alexander VII commissioned Pietro...
IV, achieved notable rebuilding. The front portico, attributed to BaccioPontelli, was added in 1475. The cloister (1493–1503) has been attributed to...
(the future Pope Julius II). The actual construction was entrusted to BaccioPontelli, who had also built the neighboring fortress. It is uncertain whether...
the Palace has been attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Martini and BaccioPontelli, while Filippo Titi suggests Donato Bramante and other authors have...
and enlarged. The latter entrusted the work to Florentine architect BaccioPontelli; among others he designed the Corsia Sistina, a 126 m long hall with...
illusionistic architecture depicted in the famous wooden inlays (the work of BaccioPontelli, Giuliano da Maiano and other artists for the designs) and paintings...
worked on this project, but he did it along with another architect, BaccioPontelli. Additionally, according to inscriptions in the castle, the renovation...
better preserved in the Marche region, restored in the 15th century by BaccioPontelli Clock tower Church of San Nicolò. Built during the 16th century and...
construction of Palazzo Della Rovere, possibly entrusting this work to BaccioPontelli. The remains of the theatre were found during excavations from 2020...
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important papal projects in Rome during Sixtus IV to a Florentine, BaccioPontelli including the basilica and monastery of Santa Maria del Popolo. Modern...
Dolphins", an example of refined 16th-century elegance, attributable to BaccioPontelli. In addition to the Cloisters of the Friars and of the Nuns, the hospital...
Sixtus IV (r. 1471–84), after whom it is named, from the architect BaccioPontelli, who reused the foundations of a prior Roman bridge, the Pons Aurelius...
whose construction he had started in 1480, perhaps under design by BaccioPontelli. He died in Rome on 22 April 1501, having made his Last Will and Testament...
engineer, and sculptor, was active in Florence, Rome, Naples and Milan. BaccioPontelli (c. 1450 – 1492), was an architect and sculptor. Pupil of Francesco...
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