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| : a method of constructing a one-point perspective using a drawing that combines front and side views of the perspective setup |
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| Filarete (Antonio Averlino) |
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| ), c. 1400-1469: Italian architect famous for his Treatise on architecture describing the building of the ideal city of Sforzinda in narrative form |
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| Duke of Milan and patron of Filarete |
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| Italian term for inlay work in different colored woods. (Contrasts with intaglio, which is relief carving.) |
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| (1490-1464) Italian architect who worked with Alberti and famous for work on the town of Pienza |
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| (active 46-30 B.C. Roman architect and theorist of slight importance in his own time but of enormous influence particularly in the Renaissance and following. |
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| residence, in Milan, of Franceso Sforza, duke of Milan & Filarete’s patron. |
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| 1450-65: One of the few extant buildings which can be attributed to Filarete with any assurance. |
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| Italian fortified city of the 17th century with an ideal form similar to Filarete’s Sforzinda. It was constructed to assist in the defense of Venice against the Turks. |
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| Town (formerly Corsignano) partly rebuilt in the Renaissance manner by the Architect Bernardo Rossellino under the patronage of pope Pius II |
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