Antonio da Faenza
Antonio da Faenza (either circa 1454 or more likely 1480s - 1534) was an Italian painter and architect active in Emilia-Romagna and Marche, active in a Renaissance style. The documentation on Antonio da Faenza is confused because, different authors have referred to him by various names including: Some also attempt to identify him with Antonio Gentile, a contemporary goldsmith. Biography. His first works are now lost but were painted in Velletri in 1509. The original biographical sketch was by Faenza historian Bernardino Azzurini, who also recalls he wrote an architectural treatise. Among his extant works of painting  attributed to Antonio da Faenza are: Among his architectural plans were a design for a bell-tower for the Faenza Cathedral and a fountain in Montelupo. Neither was completed. Azzurini in his first biography, noted that Antonio had written a treatise on architecture; however, that it had never been published. In 1991 in London, a codex by Antonio of 122 pages with 640 designs was discovered. Dating from 1516 to 1526, it includes sections on optics, arithmetic, geometry, perspective, color, and architecture. It is presumed a Franciscan scholar residing in Montelupone my have mentored the document. Antonio da Faenza Antonio