Simone del Pollaiolo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Simone del Pollaiolo

Italian architect and sculptor (1457-1508)

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1457

Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany

Date of Death: 27-Sep-1508

Profession: architect, artist, sculptor

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Simone del Pollaiolo (1457–1508) was a Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca ("The Chronicle One"). Pollaiolo was born in Florence, the nephew of the better-known brothers Antonio and Piero Benci who had the nickname Pollaiuolo or Pollaiolo ("Hen-House Keeper" in Italian, from pollaio). Simone was later given his nickname Il Cronaca.
The reason for such nickname has much to do with his style and is explained by Giorgio Vasari.
In order to learn more of the architectural art, he marched to Rome around 1470 to observe the old ruins.
On his return to Florence he made very meticulous and reasoned stories and descriptions of his observations, which were described like a chronicle. Pollaiolo was responsible for the completion of Strozzi Palace after the death of Benedetto da Maiano in 1497.
He died in Florence in 1508.



Alternative names	Vasari
Description	Italian painter, architect and historian
Date of birth/death	30 July 1511	27 June 1574
Location of birth/death	Arezzo	Florence
Work location	Florence, Rom, Arezzo
Authority control	: Q128027 VIAF: 46768219 ISNI: 0000 0001 2130 9590 ULAN: 500017608 LCCN: n79084160 NLA: 35578126 WorldCat