Domenico [Bernabei] da Cortona called "Boccador" (ca 1465 - ca 1549) was an Italian architect, a pupil of Giuliano da Sangallo

Giuliano da Sangallo

Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

;. he was brought to France by Charles VIII

Charles VIII of France

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 and remained in the service of François I

Francis I of France

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. His design for the royal Château de Chambord

Château de Chambord

The royal Château de Chambord at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinct French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures.The building, which was never...

, represented in a wooden model, survived into the seventeenth century but responsibility for the design is also given to Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...

, who was at the royal court at Amboise

Château d'Amboise

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 at the same time, and the actual construction, during which much was improvised, was under the on-site supervision of Pierre Nepveu.

Domenico da Cortona was domiciled at Blois. He was at Amboise, responsible for design planning in festivities marking the birth of the dauphin in April 1518. He also supervised military engineering works at the châteaux of Tournai

Tournai

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 and Ardres

Ardres

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.

Domenico is also credited with designing the Église Saint-Eustache

Église Saint-Eustache, Paris

L’église Saint-Eustache is a church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, built between 1532 and 1632.Situated at the entrance to Paris’s ancient markets and the beginning of rue Montorgueil, the Église de Saint-Eustache is considered a masterpiece of late Gothic architecture...

 in Paris. The Hôtel de Ville

Hôtel de Ville, Paris

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of Paris, destroyed during the Commune, 24 May 1871, bore an inscription ending Domenico Cortonensi architectante.

The standard monograph is P. Lesueur, Dominique de Cortone dit Boccador (Paris) 1928.