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  Antonio da Sangallo - Great Buildings Online
Antonio da Sangallo was born in Florence in 1483.
The efficient infrastructure of the Sangallo business allowed him to take on commissions for a large number of clients while he continued to devote a large portion of his energies on St. Peter's.
Although Sangallo was often viewed as more of a builder and engineer than an artist, he resisted the "mannerism" with which so many of his contemporaries attempted to emulate Michelangelo.
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 1534 Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Florentine architect (born 1453)
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 Sangallo
the elder, 1455–1534, moved from reminiscences of Giuliano's manner to a High Renaissance massiveness, seen in the domed Church of the Madonna di San Biagio at Montepulciano.
the younger, 1485–1546, their nephew, whose real name was Antonio Cordiani, was the most noted of the three.
After Raphael's death Antonio was appointed (1520) to succeed him in the construction of St. Peter's, although his complex plan for its completion was not accepted.
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 Giorgio Vasari sculptors and architects information
image:Vasari.jpgthumbGiorgio Vasari's selfportrait At a very early age he became a pupil of Guglielmo da Marsiglia, a very skilful painter of stained glass, to whom he was recommended by his own kinsman, the painter Luca Signorelli.
At the age of sixteen Cardinal Silvio Passerini who sent him to study in Florence, in the circle of Andrea del Sarto and his pupils Rosso il FiorentinoRosso and Jacopo Pontormo.
Unhappily he did much to injure the fine medieval churches of Santa Maria Novella and Basilica di Santa Croce, FlorenceSanta Croce, from both of which he removed the original rood screen and loft, and remodelled the retro-choir in the Mannerist taste of his time.
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0262042177 : The Democracy Sourcebook : Robert A. Dahl, Ian Shapiro and José Antonio Cheibub (Eds.)
0262062100 : The Architectural Drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and His Circle - Volume II : Christoph L. Frommel
0262062119 : Safe and Sound : John Fox and Subrata Das
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