Pietro Francesco Tagliapietra known as Francesco Paciotto (1521 - 1591) was an Italian military and civil architect, born and died in

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Biography

He was a pupil of

Girolamo Genga Girolamo Genga (c. 1476 – 11 July 1551) was an Italian painter and architect of the late Renaissance, Mannerist style. Life and career Genga was born in a region near Urbino. According mainly to Giorgio Vasari's biography, by age thirteen ...

at Urbino, before going to

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to attend fhe Vitruvian Academy. He worked in Emilia for Farnese where

Ottavio Ottavio is the Italian form of Octavius. Its feminine given name version is Ottavia. Ottavio may refer to: Given name * Ottavio Cinquanta, the President of the International Skating Union * Ottavio Leoni, Italian painter * Ottavio Piccolomini, (15 ...

, second Duke of Parma and Piacenza, charged him for the first project, in 1558, of the

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. Following the wife of Duke Ottavio, Margaret of Austria who was appointed by

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governor of Flanders, he moved from Italy to

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where he built the

citadel of Antwerp Antwerp Citadel (, ) was a pentagonal bastion fort built to defend and dominate the city of Antwerp in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt. It has been described as "doubtlesse the most matchlesse piece of modern Fortification in the World" and as ...

. Back to Italy he worked in

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where he contributed to design the fortified walls of the city. The

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commissioned

Bartolomeo Campi Bartolomeo Campi (died 1573), was an Italian renaissance artist, goldsmith, armourer, and military engineer from Pesaro, who worked at the courts of Urbino and France. Career Pietro Aretino commended his early works. Bartolomeo Campi worked for G ...

to design improvements to Paciotto's work at Antwerp, but these were not carried out.Charles van den Heuvel, 'Bartolomeo Campi: A different method of designing citadels: Groningen and Flushing', ''Architetti e ingegneri militari italiani all'estero dal XV al XVIII secolo'' (Livorno, 1994), 153–67.

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