SOLARI, PIETRO ANTONIO. - Son of Guiniforte, Lombard architect and sculptor. He is documented from 1446; he died in Moscow in 1493.
In 1476 he entered the service of the Opera del duomo of Milan as an architect; in 1481 he succeeded his father, who died that year, in the works on the Ospedale maggiore of Milan and the Certosa of Pavia; in 1490 he went to Russia. At Milan, his activity as an architect is credited with the reconstruction (after the fire of 1446) of the church of S. Maria del Carmine, based on a vigorous structure of piers and groin vaults; the church of S. Maria dell'Incoronata; and the Borromeo chapel in S. Maria Podone. In Moscow he worked on the walls and towers of the Kremlin, constructing their massive foundations. The attribution to S. of the statue of the Virgin in the Archaeological Museum of Milan is disputed; it has been thought possible to recognize in it one of his sculptures for the Duomo.