SOLARI, PIETRO ANTONIO. - Son of Guiniforte, Lombard architect and sculptor. There is evidence of him 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 in that year, in the works of the Ospedale maggiore of Milan and of the Certosa of Pavia; in 1490 he went to Russia. To his activity as an architect are attributed in Milan - the reconstruction (after the fire of 1446) of the church of S. Maria del Carmine, laid out on a vigorous organism of pillars and cross 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, building their massive foundations. The attribution to S. of the statue of the Virgin in the Archaeological Museum of Milan, in which it has been believed that a sculpture of his for the Duomo can be recognized, is debated.

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BIBL.: anon., s. v. in Thieme-Becker, XXXI (1937), pp. 230-231, with bibl.; C. Baroni, Docum. per la stor. dell'archit. a Milano nel Rinascim. e nel Barocco, Florence 1940, p. 195 ff.; P. Mezzanotte and G. C. Bascapé, Milano nell'arte e nella storia, Milan 1948, p. 33, passim.

Amalia Mezzetti

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Solari, Pietro Antonio

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