Luca Fancelli: An Architect Lost in Time Luca Fancelli (c. 1430 – c. 1502) remains one of the most elusive figures in Renaissance art and architecture, a sculptor and architect whose accomplishments are debated by scholars even today. Born in Settignano, Italy—a suburb of Florence—little is definitively known about his early life or artistic training. However, he emerged as a skilled craftsman under Brunelleschi, the visionary architect who revolutionized Florentine building techniques after the collapse of Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD and spearheaded the construction of the Duomo (Cathedral…