What is Giorgio Orsini?
'''Giorgio Orsini''' (referred often as '''Giorgio da Sebenico''', '''Giorgio di Matteo''', born 1410, died 1475) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[medieval]] [[sculptor]] and [[architect]] from [[Dalmatia]]. Orsini lived and worked mainly in the city of [[Sebenico]] (modern-day Šibenik, Croatia), [[Republic of Venice]].<ref>Monvmental Dalmatia by Adolfo Venturi, Ettore Pais, and Pompeo Molmenti; Alfieri & Lacroix, 1917, Biography on pages 63-69</ref> ==Life== Giorgio Orsini descends from ancient and noble [[House of Orsini]]. Hard times had been fallen upon the House branch Giorgio belonged to. Mateo, Giorgio's father, as much as Giorgio himself, has forced to support himself and his family by manual labor. As the architect and sculptor, he was educated in the art workshop of sculptors Giovanni and Bartolomeo Buon in [[Venice]].<ref>Storia dell'arte italiana: Il Trecento e il Quattrocento by Giuseppe Mazzariol, and Terisio Pignatti; Edizioni scolastiche Mondadori, 1961, page 138</ref> While in [[Venice]], Giorgio married Elizabetta da Monte, who brought him a fair dowry, money and homes in [[Venice]]. He invested Elizabetta's money in a grocery store and in a merchant ship which brought them good returns. Elizabetta's husband entrusted her of a power of attorney by which she was able to attend to his affairs while he was absent. In July 1455 Giorgio bought home from a local nobleman Simeonich, where he engraved his family's heraldic symbol - a bear.<ref>A holiday in Umbria: with an account of Urbino and the Cortegiano of Castiglione by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, J. Murray, 1917, page 38<br>Giorgio Orsini died in 1475, and, so far as I can ascertain, at Sebenico, where he had a house on the doorway of which he carved the bear, the badge of his family, and the mallet and chisels and other implements of his craft<sup>2</sup>.<br>...<br><sup>2</sup>Illustrated in my Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, vol. i. p. 406.</ref> When signing contracts, Giorgio often used his art name Georgius Dalmaticus, Sixty five years after h