Giovanni Solari was an Italian architect and engineer.

He was born in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, the son of the architect Marco Solari

Marco Solari

Marco Solari was an Italian architect and engineer.He was born in Carona, in what today is the Swiss canton of Ticino, and was the father of the architect Giovanni Solari....

, who was chief of the works of the Duomo of Milan. Giovanni Solari directed the construction of the Certosa di Pavia

Certosa di Pavia

The Certosa di Pavia Gra-Car , Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of Grace, is a monastery and complex in Lombardy, northern Italy, situated near a small town of the same name in the Province of Pavia, 8 km north of Pavia...

 from 1428 to 1462 and that of the Duomo from 1452 to 1469. He was succeeded in Pavia by his son Guiniforte Solari

Guiniforte Solari

Guiniforte Solari , also known as Boniforte, was an Italian sculptor, architect and engineer.Born in Milan, he was the son of the architect Giovanni Solari, and brother of Francesco Solari....

. His other son Francesco

Francesco Solari

thumb|240px|Madonna with Child, church of Sant'Angelo, Milan.Francesco Solari was an Italian sculptor, architect and engineer.He was born in Milan, the son of Giovanni Solari and the brother of Guiniforte Solari....

 was master of Giovanni Antonio Amadeo

Giovanni Antonio Amadeo

thumb|260px|The Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo.Giovanni Antonio Amadeo was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect, and engineer....

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Giovanni Solari also worked as military engineer for Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza

Galeazzo Maria Sforza

Galeazzo Maria Sforza was Duke of Milan from 1466 until his death. He was famous for being lustful, cruel and tyrannical....

. He died in Milan in 1482.