Filarete

Filarete's star-shaped plan for the ideal city of Sforzinda, from 1457 pictured here, included a circular moat and 16 radial spokes.

Dreams of a Better Place 2011

Note 12: These admirers included Filarete; see Raggio, Gubbio Studiolo, 105. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

No medieval artist could have expressed what the architect Filarete (Antonio Averlino) wrote about

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

Filarete depicts the pageantry accompany - ing the founding of the city, the time of which is chosen according to astrological observation.

THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968

Francesco da Barberino, Filarete, whose chosen name meant “lover of virtue” — meant by “virtue in general,” but their use of Hercules to represent the quality they had in mind gives an indication.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JERROLD E. SEIGEL 1968

Sculptors (1550), Vasari generally follows his fifteenth - century predecessors Manetti and Filarete in designat - ing medieval architecture as simply “German”

CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968

To the author's mind, however, the proposed city is no artificial struc - ture; Filarete believes that Sforzinda, the ville radieuse of the Renaissance, is “beautiful and good and perfectly in accord with the natural order.”

THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968

Filarete is wholeheartedly antimedieval, i.e., he is a radical critic of the city that has merely “grown.”

THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968

Filarete wrote in 1464: Ancora a me solevano piacere questi moderni; ma poi, ch'io comenciai a gustare questi antichi, mi sono venuti in odio quelli moderni ....

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

Closely related to Alberti, and probably influenced by him, is Filarete, whose Trattato di architettura was composed in 1460-64.

THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968