Alessandro Pasqualini was an Italian

Italy

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 Renaissance

Renaissance

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 architect, born in Bologna

Bologna

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, who helped bring Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture

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 to the Low Countries

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He was hired by Floris van Egmond, the count of Buren

Buren

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 and lord of IJsselstein

IJsselstein

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 and Grave

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, and worked in the Netherlands

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 for 18 years. His most important works from this period are the tower of the church of IJsselstein and the castle of Buren. Other works include an octagonal storey of the church tower of Buren, the facade of the south transept of the church of Grave and fortifications in Leerdam

Leerdam

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 and Kampen

Kampen (Overijssel)

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In 1549, after the death of Maximiliaan van Egmond, Floris' son, Pasqualini was hired by Wilhelm V, duke of Jülich

Jülich

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, Kleve

Kleve

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 and Berg

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. He directed the reconstruction of the German city of Jülich

Jülich

Jülich is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Jülich is well known as location of a world-famous research centre, the Forschungszentrum Jülich and as shortwave transmission site of Deutsche Welle...

 after the fire in 1547 and designed a palace, a town hall and a citadel in the same town. He died in Bielefeld

Bielefeld

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in 1559.