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Born c.1510 • Naples • Italy
Died October 1583 • Ferrara • Italy
Movement / Style Mannerism
Martino Longhi, the Elder
Italian architect
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Giulio Romano: Palazzo del Te
Giulio Romano
Italian artist and architect
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Italian artist and author
Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola, Italy, by Giacomo da Vignola, 1559–73
Giacomo da Vignola
Italian architect
“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Bartolommeo Ammannati
Italian sculptor and architect
Sebastiano Serlio: treatise on architecture
Sebastiano Serlio
Italian architect
Grotto Courtyard
Federico Sustris
Italian painter and architect
Sanmicheli, Michele: Palazzo Grimani
Michele Sanmicheli
Italian architect
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Italy
Giacomo della Porta
Italian architect
Vincenzo Scamozzi
Italian architect
Church of Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome, by Carlo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi
Italian architect
William Kent
William Kent
British architect
John Claudius Loudon
Scottish landscape architect
Downing, Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson Downing
American horticulturalist and landscape architect
Daniel Marot
French architect and designer
François-Joseph Bélanger
French architect, artist, landscape designer, and engineer
Griffin, Walter Burley
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and city planner
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect

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