Michelozzo

/ mikeˈlɔttso /

noun

1. Michelozzo13961472MItalianARCHITECTURE: architectARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor full name Michelozzo di Bartolommeo. 1396–1472, Italian architect and sculptor. His most important design was the Palazzo Riccardo for the Medici family in Florence (1444–59)

Example Sentences

The Dominicans took possession of the convent in 1437, when the architect Michelozzo began a vast reconstruction of an existing convent, at the expense of Cosimo de’ Medici, who reserved a cell for himself as a retreat.

From New York Times

Michelozzo’s Chapel of the Crucifix contains terracotta works by Luca della Robbia, whose other works can be found throughout the church.

From The Guardian

In 1437 Donatello received a commission to cast a bronze door for one of the sacristies of the cathedral; but, as he delayed to execute this 967 order, the work was handed over to Luca on the 28th of February 1446, with Michelozzo and Maso di Bartolomeo as his assistants.

From Project Gutenberg

To Michelozzo and Luca in collaboration we owe the bronze gates of the Duomo sacristy, a work only inferior to Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise."

From Project Gutenberg

The large central tabernacle was originally assigned to the Parte Guelfa, the only organisation outside of the Guilds that was allowed to share in this work; for them, Donatello made a bronze statue of their patron, St. Louis of Toulouse, and either Donatello himself or Michelozzo prepared, in 1423, the beautiful niche for him which is still here.

From Project Gutenberg