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Baccio Pontelli
Italian architect
Baccio Pontelli (c. 1449 – c. 1494) was an Italian architect and worker in wood inlays, who designed the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
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Baccio is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo.
Pontelli was born in Florence; in 1459 his father declared he was ten years old.[1] He trained in artistic woodwork such as marquetry in the workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano in Florence, and was influenced by Francesco di Giorgio Martini during a trip to Urbino (1480–1482), where he worked on the Studiolo of Duke Federico de Montefeltro, in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino.
He worked in Florence and later in Urbino on inlays.
Acting as an architect in Rome, he participated in the pope Sixtus IV's urban renewal. His exact contributions are unclear; he was perhaps more given more work supervising construction than designing.
The tendency of Giorgio Vasari to attribute most Papal building commissions in the period to his fellow-Florentine has rather