Meo del Caprina

Amedeo di Francesco, also known as Meo del Caprina (1430 – 1501), was an Italian architect, engineer, and sculptor of the Renaissance active in Rome and Turin in the second half of the 15th century. The earliest records of his works date back to 1453 in Ferrara.

From 1462, he moved to Rome, where he worked on the Palazzo Barbo, better known as Palazzo Venezia, and in the Vatican on the Loggia dei Penitenzieri, which was demolished in later reconstruction works of the Vatican Basilica.

In 1492, he was commissioned by Cardinal Domenico della Rovere, who became bishop of the city, to build the new Duomo of Turin.

Amedeo di Francesco brought to Turin, which until then had remained linked by tradition and proximity to Gothic architecture from overseas, the first example of typically Tuscan Renaissance architecture. In this project, elements reminiscent of the architectures of Brunelleschi and Alberti merge into a fundamentally simple and linear structure.

A sepulchral tomb sculpted by him can be found in the Church of Sant'Agostino in Carmagnola.