Simone del Pollaiolo (1457–1508) was a
Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca ("The Chronicle One").
Pollaiolo was born in Florence, the nephew of the better-known brothers
Antonio
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and
Piero Benci who had the nickname ''Pollaiuolo'' or ''Pollaiolo'' ("Hen-House Keeper" in Italian, from ).
Simone was later given his nickname ''Il Cronaca''. The reason for such nickname has much to do with his style and is explained by
Giorgio Vasari. In order to learn more of the architectural art, he marched to
Rome around 1470 to observe the old ruins. On his return to Florence he made very meticulous and reasoned stories and descriptions of his observations, which were described like a chronicle.
Pollaiolo was responsible for the completion of
Strozzi Palace after the death of
Benedetto da Maiano in 1497.
He died in Florence in 1508.
Further reading
*
Anne-Imelda Radice, "Il Cronaca: A Fifteenth-Century Florentine Architect," Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976
References
1457 births
1508 deaths
Architects from Florence
15th-century Italian architects
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