Francesco Di Giorgio Martini
Francesco di Giorgio Martini (born in 1439 in Siena , where he died in 1502 ) is a painter and military engineer Italian of Renaissance who worked with Neroccio di Landi in a joint workshop, located in Siena, between 1468 and 1475.
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini is the son of Giorgio di Martino del Viva family of minor nobility of the sword after the order of Tau (the Knights of Saint-Jacques d'Altopascio-eleventh century) and he was baptized on 23 September 1439 to Siena as Franciescho Maurizio di Giorgio di Martino Pollaiuolo.
He married 3 November 1467 Cristofani di Cristofano di Compagnatico-Loli, but in 1486 a document states that he received a dowry of 300 florins, which indicates a new marriage with the daughter of Antonio di Benedetto Nerocci of Sienna suggesting that his previous wife died in childbirth giving birth to her only son, Andrea Di Giorgio Loli to be elected captain regent of San Marino in 1497.
After the student Vecchietta , he started as a painter in the 1460s , alongside Neroccio di Landi. His collaboration with Neroccio is dissolved on 6 July 1475 and from November 1477 Francesco is called to live in Urbino , close to the court of Federico da Montefeltro , where he was hired primarily as a military architect for the completion of numerous fortifications in Castles of the Duchy of Urbino. He applies his military principles: radial plane, bastions triangular towers with upper casemate batteries, use of explosive devices, attack and defense (seat of Castellina in Chianti ). He built a total of one hundred and thirty to six buildings for the lord of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro , civil and military Works Less famous than Leonardo da Vinci , he had the students on some of its sites ( Dome of Milan ), Francesco di Giorgio Martini also left less written, probably because many commands, but his book ' Engineering is one such model, particularly because of the quality of its line. He would have inspired Leonardo da Vinci some of his works have been wrongly assigned as shown in the review pages of this book (many drawings of machines such that the connecting rod system with centrifugal governor or the hydraulic saw or even a man driving a motor vehicle or ) clearly shows a style that can not be attributed solely to Leonard (handwritten pages illustrated by drawings of machines). At the Museum of the History of Science in Florence are preserved so many of his sketches Anthropomorphic Architecture Francesco di Giorgio is based, also before Leonardo, the homo bene figuratus of Vitruvius when he proposes to include the proportions of the human head in the structure of the big buildings or in the body plan of the church in principle anthropomorphic architecture or in a circle of proportions : His book engineer
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