Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490)

Florentine architect. A member of an established artistic family, Giuliano trained with his brother, the sculptor Benedetto da Maiano, as a stone-carver and later collaborated with him on a number of projects, including the shrine of San Savino (1472, Faenza Cathedral) and a chapel for Santa Fina in the Collegiata at San Gimignano in 1468. He designed Faenza Cathedral (1474–86).

Following in the artistic footsteps of Brunelleschi and Michelozzo, Giuliano worked on the Palazzo Pazzi in Florence 1460–72; on the vaulting of the nave in the Cathedral of Loreto (after 1481); and on a royal villa in Naples, the Poggio Reale (1484–90), now destroyed. He also executed several notable carvings in wood.