Diotisalvi biography channel

12th-century Italian architect

This article is about the 12th-century architect. For the 13th-century painter sometimes known as Diotisalvi, see Dietisalvi di Speme. For the 15th-century diplomat and statesman, see Diotisalvi Neroni.

Diotisalvi, also Deotisalvi or Deustesalvet, was an architect from Pisa, Italy, active in the 12th century in Pisa.

Little is known of him.

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Career

Baptistry of Pisa

He is well known to be the original architect of the Baptistry of Pisa, in Piazza dei Miracoli, as we can read in the sign he left inside the building, with the date 1152 (1153 stile pisano):

MCLIII, MENSE AUGUSTI FUNDATA FUIT HAEC ECCLESIA

DEUSTESALVET MAGISTER HUIUS OPERIS^[1]

Although he did the original project, the present Baptistery was different from his idea.

In fact, he constructed only the first part, the ground floor. The building was continued after his death by Nicola Pisano, a century after its foundation, and then completed by Gio