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Designer
Bonaccorso Ghiberti, nephew of the famous Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, was an Italian sculptor and architect. . He is remembered for the drawing of building machine designed by Brunelleschi for the dome of Maria del Fiore in Florence. The drawings are collected in the manuscript "Zibaldone" by which there are two copies, one in Florence and one in Turin.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, engineer, architect, designer.
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variant spelling:
Ghiberti, Bonaccorso
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Curriculum vitae
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1420 - 1433
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Lorenzo Ghiberti, grandfather of Bonaccorso works with Brunelleschi to the construction site of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence
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* 1451
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Firenze
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born
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1459 - 1461
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He worked in the workshop of his grandfather
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1460 - 1470
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He studied jewellery, metallurgy and mechanics
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1490 - 1500
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He made fortifications for Virginio Orsini
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1499 - 1501
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He concludes his manuscript “Zibaldone”
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† 1516
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Firenze
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died
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