MICHELOZZO, meke-lot'so, Michelozzi, Italian architect and sculptor: b. Florence, 1391 or 1396; d. there, 1472. He studied sculpture under Donatello and architecture under Bru nelleschi, and was a protégé of Cosimo dei Medici. He worked in silver, bronze and mar ble as a sculptor and attained a high reputa tion for his work; but his fame rests princi pally upon his achievements as an architect, his name ranking among the foremost of the famous Florentine architects of the 15th cen tury. He executed the silver statue of Saint John in the Duomo, Florence, and also the bronze statue of that saint in the Bargello, and the terra cotta figure of him in the court of the church of the Annunziata, Florence. Much of his work as a sculptor was done with Dona tello and it is difficult to establish its identity. He designed the library of San Giorgio Mag giore at Venice, as well as other buildings there, during the period when he shared • the exile of his patron, Cosimo dei Medici. He
designed the Riccardi Palace in Florence for the Medici, and his skill as an engineer was attested by his repairing and partially rebuild ing the Palazzo Vecchio, which was falling to ruin. He also undertook the repairs and re modeling of the monastery of San Marco at Florence when it was given to the Dominicans of Fiesole by the Medici. He designed the Medici summer villa at Careggi, the pilgrim's guest-house, Jerusalem, the Medici palace at Fiesole and many other buildings. His style effected a combination of early Italian Gothic and the classical type with marvelous simplic ity and lightness, withal stateliness of line. Consult Miintz, E. 'Histoire de l'Art pendant in Renaissance, Italie' (1889) • Wolf, F., 'Michelozzo di Bartolomme0 (1900).