MICHELOZZO, a Florentine sculptor and architect, was born about the year 1396. He was in his youth a pupil of Donatello, and soon displayed great genius and skill in executing marble and bronze statues. He was Michigan, much attached to the service of Cosmo de' Medici, for whom he built a palace in Florence, now known by the name of the Palazzo Riccardi. This building is remarkable as being the earliest in Florence built after the modern rules; and as combining convenience as a dwelling with simplicity and beauty of architecture. When Cosmo was banished in 1433 Michelozzi followed him to Venice, where he erected the library of the convent of San Giorgio Maggiore, and designed several other edifices. In 1434 he returned with his patron to Florence, where he continued to exercise his art with such success, that he was appointed a member of the Florentine magistracy. After the death of Cosmo, Michelozzi continued to enjoy the favour of his son Pietro, for whom also he planned many buildings. He died at the age of sixty-eight, about the year 1470; but neither the date of his birth nor that of his death is exactly known.