Novello da San Lucano practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Novello da San Lucano as Italian architect and composer.
Novello da San Lucano was born at San Severino Lucano in 1435.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect and composer.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Novello da San Lucano died in 1516, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
