query: place_of_birth martino di bartolomeo
supports: The Palazzo Pubblico ("town hall") is a palace in Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. Construction began in 1297 and its original purpose was to house the republican government, consisting of the Podestà and Council of Nine. Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati) (c. 1290  9 June 1348) was an exceptionally original Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active from approximately 1317 to 1348. He painted "The Allegory of Good and Bad Government" in the Sala dei Nove (Salon of Nine or Council Room) in the Palazzo Pubblico (or Town Hall) of Siena. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti. Simone Martini ( 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. 
  He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style.  Il Sodoma (1477  February 14, 1549) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena, with two periods in Rome. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. The Province of Pisa is a province in the Tuscany region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Pisa. With an area of and a total population of 421,642, it is the second most populous and fifth largest province of Tuscany. It is subdivided into 37 "comuni". With a history dating back to the Etruscans and Phoenicians, the province achieved considerable power and influence in the Mediterranean in the 12th and 13th centuries. Pisa, the provincial capital, is well known for its Leaning Tower which attracts tourists to the area with many historic landmarks. Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 12551260  c. 13181319) was an Italian painter, active in the city of Siena in Tuscany, where he was born, in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the River Arno just before it empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower (the bell tower of the city's cathedral), the city of over 90,834 residents (around 200,000 with the metropolitan area) contains more than 20 other historic churches, several medieval palaces and various bridges across the River Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics. The maritime republics of the Mediterranean Basin were thalassocratic city-states which flourished in Italy and Dalmatia during the Middle Ages. The best known among the maritime republics are Venice, Genoa, Pisa, Ragusa, and Amalfi. Less known are Gaeta, Ancona, Noli. Taddeo di Bartolo (c. 1363  26 August 1422), also known as Taddeo Bartoli, was an Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's biographies of artists or "Vite". Vasari claims he is the uncle of Domenico di Bartolo.  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the Metropolitan City of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants, expanding to over 1,520,000 in the metropolitan area. A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells, even if it has none. In the European tradition, such a tower most commonly serves as part of a church and contains church bells. Modern bell towers often contain carillons. Central Italy (or just ) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first level NUTS region and a European Parliament constituency. Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Southern and Central Europe, never quite effacing more classical styles in Italy. In the late 14th century, the sophisticated court style of International Gothic developed, which continued to evolve until the late 15th century. In many areas, especially Germany, Late Gothic art continued well into the 16th century, before being subsumed into Renaissance art. Primary media in the Gothic period included sculpture, panel painting, stained glass, fresco and illuminated manuscripts. The easily recognizable shifts in architecture from Romanesque to Gothic, and Gothic to Renaissance styles, are typically used to define the periods in art in all media, although in many ways figurative art developed at a different pace. Tuscany is a region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013). The regional capital is Florence ("Firenze"). The Sienese School of painting flourished in Siena, Italy between the 13th and 15th centuries and for a time rivaled Florence, though it was more conservative, being inclined towards the decorative beauty and elegant grace of late Gothic art. Its most important representatives include Duccio, whose work shows Byzantine influence; his pupil Simone Martini; Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti; Domenico and Taddeo di Bartolo; Sassetta and Matteo di Giovanni. Unlike the naturalistic Florentine art, there is a mystical streak in Sienese art, characterized by a common focus on miraculous events, with less attention to proportions, distortions of time and place, and often dreamlike coloration. In the 16th century the Mannerists Beccafumi and Il Sodoma worked there. While Baldassare Peruzzi was born and trained in Siena, his major works and style reflect his long career in Rome. The economic and political decline of Siena by the 16th century, and its eventual subjugation by Florence, largely checked the development of Sienese painting, although it also meant that a good proportion of Sienese works in churches and public buildings were not discarded or destroyed by new paintings or rebuilding. Siena remains a remarkably well-preserved Italian late-Medieval town. Lucca is a city and "comune" in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio, in a fertile plain near the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital of the Province of Lucca. It is famous for its intact Renaissance-era city walls. Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481  6 January 1536) was an Italian architect and painter, born in a small town near Siena (in Ancaiano, "frazione" of Sovicille) and died in Rome. He worked for many years with Bramante, Raphael, and later Sangallo during the erection of the new St. Peter's. He returned to his native Siena after the Sack of Rome (1527) where he was employed as architect to the Republic. For the Sienese he built new fortifications for the city and designed (though did not build) a remarkable dam on the Bruna River near Giuncarico. He seems to have moved back to Rome permanently by 1535.  Martino di Bartolomeo or Martino di Bartolomeo di Biago was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator active between 1389 and 1434 . He was one of his generation 's principal painters of the Sienese School . From specific aspects of his early style , he is believed to have trained in the studio of Taddeo di Bartolo . As a young man Martino collaborated with Giovanni di Pietro da Napoli ( active 1402 - 1405 ) in Pisa . The fresco cycle in the church of San Giovanni Battista di Cascina , outside Pisa , bears Martino 's signature , and the date 1398 . He returned permanently to Siena in 1405 ; there he painted several prominent fresco cycles in the Duomo and the Palazzo Pubblico . Further official commissions for altarpieces and for polychromy of sculptures attest to his versatility and to his prestige as one of the city 's official artists . Martino 's early activity as an illuminator of manuscripts is based on Luciano Bellosi 's recognition of his hand in the set of choirbooks commissioned for the cathedral of Lucca by its bishop , Niccolò Guinigi , in 1394 . When he contracted with the Collegiata of San Gimignano for the polychromy of the carved wooden Annunciation in 1420 , the sculptor , Jacopo della Quercia , stood guarantor . Jacopo 's father , Pietro di Angiolo , worked in Martino 's shop . Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate; due to its shape, it is often referred to in Italy as "lo Stivale" (the Boot). With 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth most populous EU member state. The (plural: "") is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. Serchio (in antiquity the "Auser") is the third longest river in the Italian region of Tuscany at , coming after the Arno at and the Ombrone, . By mean rate of flow, it is the second largest, smaller than Arno but larger than Ombrone. The Province of Lucca is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lucca. Domenico di Bartolo (c. 1400/1404  1445/1447) was an Italian painter of the Sienese School. The Tyrrhenian Sea (, , , ) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian people, identified since the 6th century BCE with the Etruscans of Italy. The Renaissance was a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.
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answer: rome