Andrea da Faenza

Andrea da Faenza, also named Andrea Manfredi da Faenza, was a Servite friar of the fourteenth century who served as head friar of his community and worked as an architect. He is credited as the designer of the basilica of Santa Maria dei Servi in Bologna, Italy, founded in 1346 as the church of the Servite Community of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Gothic building with pointed arches throughout. Bologna Welcome says the church was built through the will of father Andrea Manfredi da Faenza and master Antonio di Vincenzo, who had already collaborated on the project of the Basilica of San Petronio, and the English Wikipedia article on the basilica says that Andrea assisted Antonio di Vincenzo on that monumental church. The Notre Dame Architecture Library records him as Padre Andrea da Faenza, who died in 1396, and the Wikipedia article adds that the work at Santa Maria dei Servi was not complete when he died. The four-sided portico in front of the church was begun in 1393 during his lifetime, although its construction was not finished until between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.