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Michelozzo di Bartolommeo called Michelozzo Michelozzi(1396–1472). Florentine architect and sculptor of the Early Renaissance, a contemporary of Brunelleschi.

He worked first with Ghiberti (1417–24) and later with Donatello(c.1425–32), with whom he designed and made a series of architectural funerary monuments. Around 1427 he designed the loggiaand court for the Medicivillaat Careggi, near Florence, having already remodelled the villa at Trebbio (c.1422).

The influence of the essentials of Renaissancearchitecture and Brunelleschi's work is clear from his reconstruction of the cloister, refectory, cells, and public rooms at the Church and Monastery of San Marco, Florence (c.1437–52), including the light, elegant, triple-aisled, vaulted library.

Michelozzi's best-known work is the enormous astylarPalazzo Medici (later Riccardi), Florence (1444–59), which has the lowest storey faced with rock-faced rusticationand