Paolo Falconieri (1638–1704) was an Italian architect, painter and mathematician, from a noble family of

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

, whose intellectual interests were wide-ranging, one of the '' virtuosi'' of the first scientific century. He was a member of the court of

Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III de' Medici (14 August 1642 – 31 October 1723) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdina ...

, and a prominent member of the Florentine ''

Accademia del Cimento The Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment), an early scientific society, was founded in Florence in 1657 by students of Galileo, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and Vincenzo Viviani and ceased to exist about a decade later. The foundation of Acade ...

'', selected in 1668 to accompany the secretary

Lorenzo Magalotti Lorenzo Magalotti (24 October 1637 – 2 March 1712) was an Italian philosopher, author, diplomat and poet. Magalotti was born in Rome into an aristocratic family, the son of Ottavio Magalotti, Prefect of the Pontifical Mail: his uncle Lorenz ...

in presenting to the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

in London and to Charles II, copies of the newly printed reports of experimental science in Florence, ''Saggi di naturali esperienze''. He produced a plan for enlarging

Palazzo Pitti The Palazzo Pitti (), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present ...

in 1681.Hiromasa Kanayama, "Paolo Falconieri e il suo Progetto della transformazione di Palazzo Pitti nel 1681" ''Pietro da Cortona. Atti del convegno internazionale,'' (Milan) 1998.

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Architects from Florence Italian Baroque architects 17th-century Italian architects 18th-century Italian architects 1638 births 1704 deaths Grand Duchy of Tuscany people {{Italy-architect-stub