THE SOCIAL POSITION OF THE ARCHITECT ARISTOTELE FIORAVANTI IN HIS PRE-MOSCOW PERIOD

The article considers the change in the social status of the architect Aristotele Fioravanti in the period from 1437 to 1473. One of the main features of the pre-Moscow period in his activities was the transformation of the old type professionalism. The author of the article studies the context of humanism in the 15th cen- tury, in the atmosphere of which the contacts of Fioravanti with his patrons and architects took place. Special attention is paid to the showing up of Fioravanti’s career lines. and the hypothesis regarding his plans to end the career. The author found out that in Bologna Fioravanti took place as a guild master, in Rome the lifting superheavy parts was defined as his specialization, in Italy he gained fame as “the man who moves towers”, but he could not achieve the title of a learned architect.