Career
He is cited by a number of names including Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini, Bartolomeo Coradini and Fra" Carnevale. The painting known by the name "The Ideal City" - one of three similar styled paintings - very often referred to in books on the theory and history of urban design - and housed at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, United States of America - is attributed to Fra Carnevale. However, the painting is attributed by others to Francesco di Giorgio Martini, partly due to the latter"s greater significance at the Urbino court and because the painting refers to architectural themes he refers to, derived from Leon Battista Alberti"s slightly earlier published treatise, in his own architectural treatise.
