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	Buontalenti, Bernardo [Bernardo delle Girandole] (b Florence, c. 1531; d Florence, 6 June 1608). Italian architect, engineer, designer, painter and inventor. He was one of the great Renaissance polymaths and was not only admired but also liked by his contemporaries. A friend of princes, he spent most of his life at the Tuscan court, but his influence stretched throughout Europe.
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	Buontalenti, Bernardo Italy, §VI, 2: Furniture, c 1450–1599 Medici, de’: (16) Francesco I de’ Medici Performance art, §1(i): Origins: Renaissance forerunners Pisa, §I: History and urban development Rovere, della (i): (5) Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino architecture belvederes Florence, §I, 5: History and urban development, 1531–1737 cathedrals Livorno Medici, de’: (17) Ferdinando I de’ Medici fortresses Belvedere galleries (iv) (art) Display of art, §II, 2: Paintings, c 1500–c 1700 Florence, §IV, 10: Uffizi Italy, §XIV, 2: Museums: The Renaissance and Baroque gallery government buildings Vasari: (1) Giorgio Vasari, §I, 3(ii): Years of maturity, 1553–74 grottoes Florence, §IV, 9(iii): Palazzo Pitti: Boboli Gardens Grotto Italy, §IV, 3(iii)(a): Mannerist sculpture, c 1530–c 1600: Florence palaces Caccini, Giovanni Battista, §2: Architecture Silvani: (1) Gherardo Silvani palazzi Florence, §II, 2(i): Art life and organization, c 1530–c 1600 theatres Theatre, §III, 2(i)(a): Italy: Renaissance architecture urban planning Urban planning, §III, 5(ii): c 1450–c 1800: New national borders attributions Lanci, Baldassare collaboration Biringucci: (2) Oreste Vannocci Biringucci Caccini, Giovanni Battista, §1: Sculpture Lotti, Cosimo fountains Fountain, §IV, 3: Western world: Baroque furniture Cabinet (ii) gardens Automata objects of vertu Bijlivert: (1) Jacques Bijlivert Italy, §X, 1(ii): Hardstones: Other patrons and collectors Bardi (i) Florence, §III, 2: Centre of hardstone production Michelangelo, §I, 1(v): Sculpture: Unfinished works Pratolino Ruin porcelain Chinoiserie, §2: Ceramics Florence, §III, 1: Centre of porcelain production pupils Cigoli, Lodovico, §1: Training and early works, to 1589 Coccapani, Sigismondo Nigetti, Matteo Parigi Pieroni da Galiano, Giovanni stage design Theatre, §III, 2(i)(b): Italy: Renaissance stage design and costume Theatre, §III, 3(i)(b): Italy: Baroque stage design and costume

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