Luciano Laurana

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Luciano Laurana (Croatian: Lucijan Vranjanin * 1420 in Vrana, Zadar , Croatia ; † 1479 in Pesaro ) was an architect of the early Renaissance and the architect of the Ducal Palace in Urbino, which is considered one of the most important palace architecture of the Italian Renaissance.

Life

Panorama of Urbino with the cathedral and the ducal palace (architect Luciano Laurana)

Luciano Laurana was born in Dalmatia, at that time the Venetian area bordered the Turkish world. He probably worked at the court of the Sforza family in Mantua in the early 1460s and was commissioned by them to build the Rocca Constanza in Pesaro.

In 1466 he was invited by Federico da Montefeltro , Count of Montefeltro and first Duke of Urbino, to complete the palace in Urbino , the so-called Palazzo Ducale , as chief architect and builder . Urbino had blossomed into an important center of the Renaissance under Federico's rule, and since 1454 the older palace was gradually expanded on the site of the present north wing. By the time he left in 1472, Laurana had essentially completed the shell, the interior of which was completed by Francesco di Giorgio from 1476 onwards .

The palace, together with the no longer preserved buildings in Mantua, was one of the first great princely residences of the Renaissance in Europe.

Laurana's importance as an architect has not been recognized for a long time; he was only rediscovered by modern art history.

literature

  • David Alberto Murolo; Storie della Vrana: destini incrociati tra arte e guerra: Luciano e Francesco Laurana, Giovanni Vrana, Yusuf Maskovic , REMEL, Ancona, 2016
  • Janez Höfler: The Palazzo ducale in Urbino under the Montefeltro (1376–1508). New research on the history of construction and furnishings . Regensburg 2004.
  • Werner Lutz: "The Architect Luciano Laurana" , University of Augsburg Dissertation 1995
  • Werner Lutz: "Luciano Laurana and the Ducal Palace of Urbino" , VDG Verlag 1996, ISBN 3-929742-78-0
  • Pasquale Rotondi: "The Ducal Palace of Urbino its architecture and decoration" , Transatlantic Arts, ISBN 0-85458-070-0

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personal data
SURNAME Laurana, Luciano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian builder and architect of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1420
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalmatia , Republic of Venice
DATE OF DEATH around 1479
Place of death Pesaro