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Florentine sculptor and architect, 1377 - 1446

"It remained to construct the nave and the rest of the church; the roofing for these was not completed till after Filippo's death. Filippo left the finished model of San Lorenzo and also completed part of the capitular buildings for the priests." I-163

Nave, San Lorenzo
Chapel, San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo
"Filippo also made the model for that curious church of the Angeli, which was commissioned by the noble Scolari family, and which remained unfinished as we see it today; this, it is said, was because the Florentines spent the money which had been put in the Monte for that purpose to meet some expenses involved in the war against the Lucchesi." I-164
Santa Maria degli Angeli (much altered from Brunelleschi's original plan)
Plan of Scolari Oratory by Giuliano da Sangallo
"When the leaders of the Guelph Party in Florence decided to put up a building with a hall and an audience chamber for their headquarters...after the building had been raised about twenty feet from the ground the work was seen to be full of mistakes and it was given to Filippo, who completed it as the magnificent structure that we can see today." I-169
Palazzo di Parte Guelpha
"Today the hall of that palace is no longer used by the leaders of the party, for when the papers of the Monte were badly damaged in the flood of 1557 the Lord Duke Cosimo decided to put the papers there." I-169

Sala, Palazzo di Parte Guelpha
"So that the leaders [of the party] could make use of the old palace his excellency commissioned from Giorgio Vasari the commodious staircase which now leads to the hall. The same artist also designed a stone balcony which has now been placed on fluted pilasters of macigno." I-170

Palazzo di Parte Guelpha and balcony

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