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    [anˈtɔːnjo di ˈpjɛːtro aver(u)ˈliːno]; c. 1400 – c. 1469), known as Filarete (Italian: [filaˈrɛːte]; from Ancient Greek: φιλάρετος, meaning "lover of excellence")...
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    the sculptor and architect Filarete to design and decorate the central tower, which is still known as the Torre del Filarete. After Francesco's death,...
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  • Alessandro Filarete (died 1608) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Umbriatico (1592–1608). On 12 Aug 1592, Alessandro Filarete was appointed...
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    another." Alberti, followed by Filarete, were the first to develop the ideas of Utopia into the plan of a city. Filarete designed a concentric city, with...
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    Saint Filarete of Calabria (also the gardener) (c. 1020 – 1070) he was born in Palermo in 1020, into a family of Calabrian origin deported to Sicily by...
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    di Pietro Averlino (c. 1400 – c. 1469), also known as "Averulino" or "Filarete". Although Sforzinda was never built, certain aspects of its design are...
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    park. Notable architects involved in the project included the Florentine Filarete, who was commissioned to build the high central entrance tower, and the...
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    complex established during the Renaissance period, it was designed by Filarete and commissioned in 1456 by Francesco I Sforza, the fourth Duke of Milan...
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    Florentine Renaissance architect Filarete completed c. 1464. Filarete's book was dedicated to Francesco Sforza, with Filarete naming the text "Libro Architecttonico...
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    better known as Filarete. The treatise takes the format of a Platonic dialogue, featuring an unnamed architect (evidently Filarete himself) who is building...
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    create the Filarete door in St. Peter's Basilica, on which he worked until 1445. In architecture, Filarete was responsible for the Filarete Tower at the...
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    completed around 1459. The appearance of the building is known to us from Filarete's treatise, which contains, in addition to some news, an engraving illustrating...
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    Rome, commissioning the Florentine Antonio di Pietro Averlino, known as Filarete (1400–1469), to make two bronze doors, (imposts), for the Old St. Peter's...
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    been the source for the design of the furnace at Ferriere, described by Filarete, involving a water-powered bellows at Semogo in Valdidentro in northern...
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    link between the old Visconti dynasty and the Sforza lineage. The stay of Filarete, beginning in 1451, was the first significant Renaissance presence in Milan...
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    Saint Elias of Enna SS. Elias and Filarete Born Enna Died Thessalonica Venerated in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy...
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    of Palmanova. It is a derivative of ideal circular cities, namely of Filarete's imaginary Sforzinda. In the early 20th century, during the fascist government...
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    Organi da Modena 1451 Giovanni Solari 1452 Antonio da Firenze detto il Filarete 1458 Donato de Sirtori 1459 Boniforte o Guinforte Solari 1476 Pietro Antonio...
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    under the influence of Roman Quattrocento artists such as Fra Angelico and Filarete. During the 1450s he began working at the French court, where he counted...
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  • dome of Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapses for the first time. c.1464 – Filarete completes his Libro architettonico, a treatise on architecture and the...
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    Galeazzo Alessi, Via Bartolino da Novara, Via Bernardo Buontalenti, Viale Filarete, Via Francesco Laparelli, Via Muzio Oddi, Via Gabrio Serbelloni. Aviators...
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    Bibiana 3 5 14 19 Porta Maggiore Ponte Casilino Sant'Elena Villini Alessi Filarete Tor Pignattara Berardi Balzani Centocelle ̶T̶o̶g̶l̶i̶a̶t̶t̶i̶ C ̶G̶r̶a̶n̶o̶...
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  • Vilnius University authorities, of the Radiant Association [pl]. The Filaretes continued the latter's tradition, with the stated aims of supporting fellow...
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    Renaissance was hypnotized by one city type which for a century and a half—from Filarete to Scamozzi—was impressed upon all utopian schemes: this is the star-shaped...
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    15th-century North Italian architect Antonio Averlino (also known as "Filarete"), a theory broadly consistent with the radiocarbon dating. Jules Janick...
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    additions to the doorways at all, such was his "pride and arrogance". Filarete, perhaps echoing a comment by Alberti, wrote that the paired figures on...
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    Milan during his life. He is especially remembered for his disputes with Filarete, who had been called by Duke Francesco I Sforza to modernize the Lombard...
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  • The Trakai Island Castle at Trakai in Lithuania is completed. c. 1400 – Filarete, born Antonio di Pietro Averlino, Florentine architect (died c. 1469) 1404:...
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  • Florence, as mentioned by Sphrantzes and confirmed by its depiction in the Filarete Doors of St. Peter's Basilica. According to a handful of surviving examples...
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    often linked to the utopian concept. Examples of the ideal cities include Filarete's "Sforzinda", a description of which was included in Trattato di architettura...
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