Luciano Laurana

Luciano Laurana (Croatian: Lucijan Vranjanin; * 1420 in Vrana, Zadar (Croatia ), † 1479 in Pesaro ) was an architect of the early Renaissance and the architect of the Ducal Palace in Urbino, which is considered as the most important palace architecture of the Italian Renaissance.

Life

Luciano Laurana was born in Dalmatia, then a Venetian territory to the Turkish world marching. Laurana learned by Filippo Brunelleschi buildings in Florence. From the Sforza family, he was commissioned to design the Rocca Constanza in Pesaro.

In 1466 he was of Federico da Montefeltro, Count of Montefeltro and first Duke of Urbino, invited as chief architect and builder of the Palace in Urbino, Palazzo Ducale called to finish. Urbino had blossomed under Federico's reign an important center of the Renaissance.

The Palazzo Ducale resulted from an avant-garde ideas of Leon Battista Alberti, namely a ruling house without any fortification characterized by openness and generosity. This is in complete contrast to the winding castles from the late Middle Ages. Laurana managed the geometric perfection of the Tuscan Renaissance and a fantasy of oriental but also slightly northern character to unite, because in his native Dalmatia there are influences from the north. The architect Francesco di Giorgio performs the work of Luciano Laurana from 1476 on. In the Ducal Palace in Urbino, the National Gallery of the Marches is housed with art treasures from all periods since 1912. Are prominently among them, in addition to the Città Ideale ( Laurana attributed ), the Madonna of Senigallia by Piero della Francesca also the portrait of a noblewoman (the " mute " ) by Raphael.

Bramante studied under the aegis of the Laurana Architects in Urbino.