Discover architect, engineer, court architect Francesco Paciotto

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: Pacciotto, Francesco Conte
Pacciotto, Francesco
Pachote, Francesco

Qualifications: architect, engineer, court architect
military engineer

Nationality/school: Italian

Born: Urbino 1521

Deceased: Urbino 1591-07-13
Saur 2017

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Rome 1540
moved in the 1540s to Rome ; worked for Ranuccio and Alessandro Farnese ; appointed as leading engineer by Pope Julius III in 1550 (Saur 2017)
Parma (stad) 1551
worked at the Farnese court in Parma (Saur 2017)
Piacenza (stad) 1556
worked here under commission of the Farnese (Saur 2017)
Brussel 1558
moved to the court in Brussels (Saur 2017)
Fidenza 1558
Saur 2017
Zuidelijke Nederlanden (hist. regio) 1558
moved to the Southern Netherlands as part of the following of Ottavio Farnese (Saur 2017)
Béthune 1558
Saur 2017
Gravelines 1558
Saur 2017
Arras (Frankrijk) 1558
Saur 2017
Vercelli (plaats) 1561
Saur 2017
Lucca (plaats) 1561
Saur 2017
Milaan 1561
Saur 2017
El Escorial 1561 - 1562
Saur 2017
Turijn 1563 - 1566
under commission of Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, worked on multiple military projects in Turin and the province (Saur 2017)
Antwerpen (stad) 1567
went to Antwerp to suggest improvements for the fortification of Antwerp in commission of the Duke of Alba (Saur 2017)
Turijn 1568
Saur 2017
Urbino 1570
in commission of the Della Rovere family (Saur 2017)
Ancona (plaats) 1571
Saur 2017
Ravenna (plaats) 1577 - 1578
Saur 2017
Urbino 1574
would keep travelling Italy for fortification projects in the final decades of his life, working in commission of courts in Naples, Mantova and Tuscana ; he always came back to his birth place (Saur 2017)

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Literature

Molhuysen/Blok et al. 1911-1937 , vol. 5, p. 418
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 26 (1932), p. 127
Saur 1992- , vol. 94 (2017), p. 106

C. van den Heuvel, 'Italiaanse ontwerpen voor citadellen in de Nederlanden (1567-1571): Het model van Paciotto versus de locatie gerichte methode van Campi', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ)/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (1993), p. 165-184
I. Verstegen, 'Francesco Paciotti, European geopolitics, and military architecture', Renaissance Studies 25 (2011), no. 3, p. 393-414

Project: Gerson Digital : Italy

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Creation date: 2022-03-02; Last modified date: 2022-08-02

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