biography
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Sansovino, Jacopo
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originally Jacopo Tatti
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pronunciation:
[sansoveenoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1486–1570)
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| biography:
| Sculptor and architect, born in Florence, NC Italy. He was a pupil of Andrea Contucci Sansovino, from whom he took his name, and was responsible for bringing the High Renaissance style of his native Florence to Venice. From 1529 he was chief architect in Venice, where he is noted for several buildings, notably the Library of St Mark's (1540s). His early sculptures include the ‘Bacchus’ (c.1514, Bargello, Florence), and the ‘Madonna del Parto’ (c.1519, S Agostino, Rome); later works include the two monumental statues, ‘Mars’ and ‘Neptune’ (1554–6, Doge's Palace, Venice). |
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