Francesco Di Giorgio Martini

Style: Italian Renaissance;

Place: Siena

Born: 1439

Death: 1502

Biography:

Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist -- in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms: "one of the most interesting later Quattrocento architects". As a military engineer, he executed architectur...