Bernardino Radi

Bernardino Radi (2 December 1581 – 29 May 1643) 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 rose window for the church of Santa Maria Nuova, Cortona.[3]

References

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.

Further reading

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 336.
• Cristiano Marchegiani, "Radi, Bernardino", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. LXXXVI, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2016, pp. 102–104.