Guido da Vigevano
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Guido da Vigevano or Guido da Vigevano da Pavia was an Italian physician and inventor. He is notable for his sketchbook Texaurus regis Francie, a catalog of military equipment, and his Anothomia Phili
Anatomy of the uterus by Guido da Vigevano, Anothomia Philippi Septimi Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 334, fol. 281v.
Guido da Vigevanos sketch of a crank wagon, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Francesco di Giorgio Martini
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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
Guido da Vigevano
…of medieval technology and medicine. As an inventor, Guido can be regarded as a distant forerunner of later Renaissance artist-engineers like Taccola, Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Leonardo da Vinci. As an anatomist, Guido documents the practices of the fourteenth-century Bolognese school and its esteemed doctor Mondino de…
Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Extract from a notebook of Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 1470
Fortress of San Leo
St John the Baptist, 1464 at Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena