Bernardino Radi

Bernardino Radi was an Italian engraver and architect, born in Cortona, who etched a set of plates depicting architectural ornaments and monuments, published in Rome in 1618, under the title of Varie invenzoni per depositi di Bernardino Radi Cortonese[1] . The entrance portico of San Jacopo sopr'Arno in Florence was remade in 1580 by Radi.[2] He helped design the Rosette window for the church of Santa Maria Nuova, Cortona.[3]

References
  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. No. 4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 336.CS1 maint: location (link)
  1. Radi, Bernardino (1619). Varie invenzoni per depositi di Bernardino Radi Cortonese. Rome.
  2. Millingchamp Vaughan, Herbert (1911). Florence and her Treasures. New York: MacMillan Company. p. 64.
  3. Cortona web description of churches.
  • Cristiano Marchegiani, "Radi, Bernardino", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. LXXXVI, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2016, pp. 102–104.



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