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Antonio da Sangallo the Elder

Italian architect

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  • Palazzo Farnese
    In Sangallo family

    Antonio da Sangallo the Elder (1455–1535), a military architect in his younger years, is best known for the major work of his life, the pilgrimage church of the Madonna di San Biago at Montepulciano, a tiny but important cultural centre of Tuscany. An ideal central-plan…

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contributions to Renaissance architecture

  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: High Renaissance in Italy (1495–1520)

    The Florentine architect Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, influenced by Bramante, created his church of San Biagio at Montepulciano (1518–29) on a Greek cross plan. On the facade in the two recesses of the arms of the cross were to rise two towers, the right one never completed.…

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