(b Maiano, nr Florence, 1432; d Naples, 17 Oct 1490). Architect, wood-carver and intarsia worker. As capomaestro of Florence Cathedral and Court Architect to Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (later Alfonso II, King of Naples), he was recognized in his lifetime as the outstanding architect of his generation. He made an important contribution to spreading the Renaissance style to southern Italy, and his ambition to enlarge the scale and scope of Italian architecture from the smaller scale employed in the early Renaissance, although not entirely successful, paved the way for the next generation’s creation of the truly monumental architecture of the High Renaissance.

Part of the Maiano, da family

• Maiano, Giuliano da
  • Maiano, da
  • Scheggia
  • architecture
    • cathedrals
      • Maiano, da: (1) Giuliano da Maiano, §1(ii): Architecture
    • chapels
      • Maiano, da: (2) Benedetto da Maiano, §1: Life and work
    • churches
      • Loreto, §II, 1(i)(a): S Maria di Loreto: Basilica architecture
      • San Gimignano
    • gates
      • Aragon: (4) Alfonso II
      • Naples, §I, 3: History and urban development, 1443–c 1600
    • palazzi
      • Italy, §II, 3(i)(a): Early Renaissance architecture, c 1400–c 1500: Tuscany
      • Robbia, della: (2) Andrea della Robbia
      • Siena, §I, 2: Urban development
      • Urbino, §4(iii): Palazzo Ducale: Main range
    • villas
      • Villa, §II, 1: Renaissance and Baroque, c 1400–c 1700: History and development
  • attributions
    • Brunelleschi, Filippo, §I, 2: Lost works, projects and attributions
    • Paul II, Pope
  • collaboration
    • Baldovinetti, Alesso, §1(ii): 1460 and after
    • Donzello: (2) Ippolito del Donzello
    • Finiguerra, Maso
    • Frame, §II, 3(i): Italian Early Renaissance
    • Francione
    • Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 1: Training and early works, before c 1470
    • Neri di Bicci, §1(ii): Life and work, after 1452
    • Neri di Bicci, §3: The Ricordanze
    • Verrocchio, Andrea del, §I, 1(i): Sculpture: Training and early career, before c 1477
  • frames
    • Frame, §II, 3(iii): Italian Renaissance: Craftsmen and workshops
    • Frame, §II, 3(v): Italian Renaissance: Tondo frames
  • intarsia
    • Italy, §VI, 2: Furniture, c 1450–1599
  • patrons and collectors
    • Pazzi
    • Strozzi: (2) Filippo Strozzi
  • woodwork
    • Florence, §IV, 8: Palazzo Vecchio