MICHELE See also:

• MICHELE SANMICHELE (1484-1559)

SANMICHELE (1484-1559)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian architect, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• SAN

San Michele near See also:

• VERONA
• VERONA, CONGRESS OF

Verona . He learnt the elements of his profession from his See also:

• FATHER

father Giovanni and his See also:

• UNCLE

uncle Bartolommeo, who both practised as architects at Verona with much success . He went at an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome to study classic See also:

• SCULPTURE
• SCULPTURE (Lat. sculptura, from sculpere, to carve, cognate with Gr. yXb4ew)

sculpture and See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture . Among his earliest See also:

• WORKS

works are the duomo of See also:

• MONTEFIASCONE

Montefiascone (an octagonal See also:

• BUILDING

building surmounted with a See also:

• CUPOLA (Ital., from Lat. cupula, small cask or vault, cupa, tub)

cupola), the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of San Domenico at See also:

• ORVIETO (anc. Volsinii (q.v.)

Orvieto, and several palaces at both places . He also executed a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb in S . Domenico . He was no less distinguished as a military architect, and was much employed by the signoria of See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, not only at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home, but also in strengthening the fortifications of See also:

• CORFU (anc. and mod. Gr. KEpKvpa or Kopiupa, Lat. Corcyra)

Corfu, See also:

• CYPRUS
• CYPRUS, CHURCH OF

Cyprus and See also:

• CANDIA

Candia . One of See also:

• SANMICHELE, MICHELE (1484-1559)

Sanmichele's most graceful designs is the Cappella de' Peregrini in the church of S . Bernardino at Verona—square outside and circular within, of the Corinthian See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order . He built a See also:

• GREAT

great number of fine palaces at Verona, including those of See also:

• CANOSSA

Canossa, Bevilacqua and Pompei, as well as the graceful See also:

• PONTE (Ital. for " bridge ")

Ponte Nuovo . In 1527 Sanmichele began to transform the fortifications of Verona according to the newer See also:

• SYSTEM

system of corner bastions—a system for the See also:

• ADVANCEMENT

advancement of which he did much valuable service . His last See also:

• WORK

work, begun in 1559, was the See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round church of the Madonna di Campagna, 12 m. from Verona on the road to Venice .

Like most other distin- guished architects of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he wrote a work on classic architecture, I Cinque Ordini dell' architettura, printed at Verona in 1735 . See Ronzani and Luciolli, Fabbriche . . . di M . Sanmichele (Venice, 1832) ; and Selva, Elogio di Sanmichele (Rome, 1814) .