Francesco di Giorgio Martini was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist—in
Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Extract from a notebook of Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 1470
St John the Baptist, 1464 at Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena
The Renaissance in Urbino was one of the most fundamental manifestations of the early Italian Renaissance.
Anonymous Florentine, Ideal City (c. 1480–1490), National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino
Anonymous Florentine, Ideal City (c. 1470–1480), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Pedro Berruguete, Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro with his son Guidobaldo (c. 1475), National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino