Domenico's Hôtel de Ville in Paris, as drawn by Jacques Cellier [fr]
Domenico da Cortona called "Boccador"[1] (ca 1465 – ca 1549) was an Italian architect, a pupil of Giuliano da Sangallo.[2] he was brought to France by Charles VIII and remained in the service of François I. His design for the royal Château de Chambord, represented in a wooden model, survived into the seventeenth century[3] but responsibility for the design is also given to Leonardo da Vinci, who was at the royal court at Amboise at the same time,[4] and the actual construction, during which much was improvised, was under the on-site supervision of Pierre Nepveu.
Domenico da Cortona was domiciled at Blois. He was at Amboise, responsible for design planning in festivities marking the birth of the dauphin in April 1518. He also supervised military engineering works at the châteaux of Tournai and Ardres.
Domenico is sometimes credited with designing the Église Saint-Eustache in Paris,[5] although other architects have also been suggested.[6] The Hôtel de Ville of Paris, destroyed during the Commune, 24 May 1871, bore an inscription ending Domenico Cortonensi architectante.
The standard monograph is P. Lesueur, Dominique de Cortone dit Boccador (Paris) 1928.
^"Golden Mouth" suggests a man of considerable persuasive charm.
^A pupil of Sangallo according to Pierre-Jean Mariette, who gives a family name Bernabei in his Abecedario.
^It was drawn by André Félibien for his Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire des maisons royalles (1681), noted by Hidemichi Tanaka, "Leonardo da Vinci, Architect of Chambord?" Artibus et Historiae13.25 (1992, pp. 85-102) p. 102v note 3.
^J. Guillaume, "Léonard de Vinci, Dominique de Cortone, et l'éscalier du modèle en bois de Chambord" Gazette des Beaux-Arts81 (February 1968) pp 93-108.
^Fletcher, Banister and Palmes, J.C. A History of Architecture Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 0-684-14207-4, p. 908
^Andrew Ayers, The Architecture of Paris, Stuttgart: Axel Menges, 2004, ISBN 9783930698967, p. 52. Ayers says the architect of Saint-Eustache is unknown, but mentions Jean Delamarre and Pierre Le Mercier as likely candidates. He does not mention Domenico da Cortona.
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