Flashcards: Renaissance architects

Girolamo Cassar (Maltese: Ġlormu Cassar, c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a Maltese architect and military engineer.

Louis Métezeau (1559 – 18 August 1615) was a French architect.

Pierre Lescot (c. 1510 – September 1578) was a French architect active during the French Renaissance, "the man who was first responsible for the implantation of pure and correct classical architecture in France.

Arnolfo di Cambio (c. 1240 – 1300/1310) was an Italian architect and sculptor.

Gaspar Becerra (1520–1570) was a Spanish painter and sculptor.

Luciano Laurana (Lutiano Dellaurana, Croatian: Lucijan Vranjanin) (c. 1420 – 1479) was an Italian architect and engineer from the historic Vrana settlement near the town of Zadar in Dalmatia, (today in Croatia, then part of the Republic of Venice) After education by his father Martin in Vrana settlement, he worked mostly in Italy during the late 15th century.

Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 14th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

Antonio di Pietro Averlino (c. 1400 – c. 1469), also "Averulino", known as Filarete (from φιλάρετος, Greek for "lover of excellence"), was a Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor, medallist, and architectural theorist.

Pedro Machuca (born Toledo, Spain ca. 1490; died 1550) is mainly remembered as the Spanish architect responsible for the design of the Palace of Charles V (begun 1528) adjacent to the Alcazar in Granada.

Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder (c. 1550 – 10 May 1601) was a Flemish-Danish architect and sculptor.

Andrea Palladio (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa palˈlaːdjo]; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice.

Santi Gucci (ca. 1530-1600) was an Italian architect and sculptor.

Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439 – 1501) was an Italian painter of the Sienese School and a sculptor, as well as being, in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms: one of the most interesting later Quattrocento architects and a visionary architectural theorist; as a military engineer he executed architectural designs and sculptural projects and built almost seventy fortifications for the Federico da Montefeltro, Count (later Duke) of Urbino, for whom he was working in the 1470s, building city walls as at Iesi and early examples of star-shaped fortifications.

Philibert de l'Orme (pronounced: [filibɛːʁ dəlɔʁm]) (3–9 June 1514 – 8 January 1570) was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of the French Renaissance.

Sebastiano Serlio (September 6, 1475 – c. 1554) was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau.

Antonio da Sangallo the Elder (c. 1453 – December 27, 1534) was an Italian Renaissance architect who specialized in the design of fortifications.

Juan de Herrera (1530 – 15 January 1597) was a Spanish architect, mathematician and geometrician.

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Jean Bullant (1515 – 13 October 1578) was a French architect and sculptor who built the tombs of Anne de Montmorency, Grand Connétable of France, Henri II, and Catherine de' Medici.

Giacomo (or Jacopo) Barozzi (or Barocchio) da Vignola (often simply called Vignola) (1 October 1507 – 7 July 1573) was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism.

Vincenzo Scamozzi (2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616) was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century.

Bartolomeo Ammannati (18 June 1511 – 13 April 1592) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence.

Giuliano da Sangallo (c. 1445–1516) was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.

Benedikt Rejt (often spelled Benedikt Ried, also known as Benedikt Rieth, Benedikt Reyd, or Benedict Reijt; in Czech he often has the epithet "of Pístov" [a village in the Czech Republic or on the Piesting?] or "of Louny"; c. 1450 – between 1531 and 1536) was a leading medieval architect in Bohemia, today's Czech Republic.

Bartolomeo Bon (also spelled Buon; died after 1464) was an Italian sculptor and architect from Campione d'Italia.

Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, also given as Du Cerceau, DuCerceau, or Ducerceau (1510–1584) was a well-known French designer of architecture, ornament, furniture, metalwork and other decorative designs during the 16th century, and the founder of the Androuet du Cerceau family.

Michele Sanmicheli (also spelled Sanmmicheli, Sanmichele or Sammichele) (1484–1559), was a Venetian architect and urban planner of Mannerist-style, among the greatest of his era.

Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger (24 June 1587 – 6 August 1639) was a Flemish-Danish architect who specialised in the Dutch Renaissance style, typical of prestigious Danish buildings from the first half of the 17th century.

Antonio Abbondi generally known as Scarpagnino (died 1549) was an Italian architect of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice.

Tommaso Dingli (Maltese: Tumas Dingli, 22 December 1591 – 28 January 1666) was a Maltese architect and sculptor.

Hans Krumpper (c.1570 – between May 7 and May 14, 1634) was a German sculptor, plasterer, architect and intendant of the arts who served the Bavarian dukes William V.

Willem Hendrickszoon de Keyser (1603 - after 1674) was a Dutch Golden Age architect and sculptor primarily active in Amsterdam and London.

Giovanni Mangone (born towards the end of 15th century, died 25 June 1543) was an Italian artist active almost exclusively in Rome during the Renaissance.

Francisco de Mora (c.1553–1610) was a Spanish Renaissance architect.

Martino Bassi (1542–1591) was an Italian architect active in the Renaissance period, mainly in Milan.

Diego de Riaño (died 1534) was a Spanish architect of the Renaissance.

Anthonis van Obbergen (Antonius, Anthonis, Anthony, Antonie, Anton - Obberghen, Oberberg, Opbergen) (1543 in Mechelen – 1611 in Gdańsk) was a Flemish architect and fortifications engineer.

Gilles Le Breton (died 1553) was a French architect and master-mason during the Renaissance.

Giovan Antonio Rusconi (* 1515 or 1520; † 1579) was a Venetian architect, hydraulic engineer, translator and illustrator of Vitruvius.

Robert Smythson (1535–1614) was an English architect.

Giovanni Battista di Quadro (Polish Jan Baptysta Quadro, Latin Joannes Baptista Quadro) (died between 10 April 1590 and 16 January 1591) was a Swiss-Italian renaissance architect, one of the most famous architects in Central Europe in his epoque.

João de Castilho (1470–1552), also known as Juan de Castillo, was a Castiliian and a notable Iberian architect born in Castillo Siete Villas, actually Arnuero (Cantabria).

Antonio Labacco was a 16th-century architect, engraver, and writer about the architecture of classical Rome.

Giovanni Battista Belluzzi (1506–1554), also known as Giovanni Battista di Bartolomeo Bellucci and as Il Sanmarino, was a Sammarinese architect.

Lorenzo Vázquez de Segovia was a 15th-century Spanish architect and builder noted for completing the Santa Cruz Palace in 1491 in Valladolid and a number of other handsome buildings in the Castile region of western Spain (Palace of the Dukes of Medinaceli (Cogolludo)).

Bartolommeo Berrecci (1480 Florence, Italy - 1537 Kraków, Poland) was an Italian renaissance architect, who spent most of his career in Poland.

Galasso Alghisi (1523–1573) was an Italian architect and author of the Renaissance period.

Luca Fancelli (c. 1430 – c. 1502) was an Italian architect and sculptor.

Andrés de Vandelvira (1509–1575) was a Spanish architect, active mainly in Jaén, Uclés, Baeza, and Úbeda during the Renaissance.

Friedrich Sustris (c. 1540 in Padua – 1599 in Munich) was an Italian-Dutch painter, decorator and architect.

Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón (1500–1577) was a Spanish architect of the Renaissance.

Juan Bautista de Toledo (c. 1515 - 19 May 1567) was a Spanish architect.

Floriano Ambrosini (1557-1621) was an Italian architect and engineer, active in late-Renaissance or Mannerist style, mainly in his native Bologna.

Alessandro Pasqualini (5 May 1493 – 1559) was an Italian Renaissance architect and engineer, born in Bologna, who helped bring Renaissance architecture to the Low Countries.

Bernardo Morando, also known as Bernardino or Morandi (ca. 1540 - 1600) was an Italian architect from the Republic of Venice.

Alonso de Covarrubias (Torrijos, Toledo 1488 – 1570) was a Spanish architect and sculptor of the Renaissance, active mainly in Toledo.

Domenico Tibaldi (1541-1583) was an Italian painter and architect, active mainly in Bologna, in a Renaissance style.

Lorenz van Steenwinckel (1585–1619) was a Flemish-Danish architect and sculptor, son of Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder and brother of Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger.

Cornelis Floris or Cornelis (II) Floris De Vriendt (1514 – 20 October 1575) was a Flemish sculptor, print artist and architect whose new style informed by Flemish traditions and the 16th century Italian renaissance spread throughout Northern Europe where it had a major influence on the development of sculpture and architecture in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Franciscus Pahr (died 1580) was an Italian architect who worked in Silesia and Sweden from the 1550s.