Mauro Codussi was an Italian

Italy

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 architect of the early-Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

, active mostly in Venice

Venice

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. The name can also be spelt Coducci. He was one of the first to bring the classical syle of the early renaissance to Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 to replace the prevalent Gothic style.

Born near Bergamo about 1440, he is first recorded in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 in 1469, where he was working on the church of San Michele in Isola

San Michele in Isola

San Michele in Isola is a Roman Catholic church in Venice, northern Italy, located on the Isola di San Michele which houses the cemetery of the city...

 on the island between Venice and Murano, where Venice now has its cemetery. Little is known of his early experience and training.

Other works include San Zaccaria

San Zaccaria di Venezia

San Zaccaria is a church in Venice, northern Italy, dedicated to St. Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, whose body it supposedly contains. It is a large edifice, located in the quiet Campo San Zaccaria, just off the waterfront to the south east of St. Mark's basilica.The present church was...

, San Giovanni Crisostomo and Santa Maria Formosa

Santa Maria Formosa

Santa Maria Formosa is a church in Venice, northern Italy. It was erected in 1492 under the design by Renaissance architect Mauro Codussi. It lies on the site of a former church dating from the 7th century, which, according to tradition, was one of the eight founded by San Magno, bishop of Oderzo...

, and the residences Ca' Vendramin Calergi

Ca' Vendramin Calergi

Ca' Vendramin Calergi is a palace on the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Cannaregio in Venice, northern Italy. Other names by which it is known include: Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi, and Palazzo Loredan Griman Calergi Vendramin. The architecturally distinguished...

 and Palazzo Zorzi.

The Torre dell'Orologio (Clock Tower), built in the Piazza San Marco in Venice between 1496 and 1499, is also attributed to him