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Born September 6, 1475 • Bologna • Italy
Died 1554 (aged 78) • Fontainebleau • France
Movement / Style Mannerism
Subjects Of Study Mannerism • order • architecture

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Vincenzo Scamozzi
Italian architect
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
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
Church of Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome, by Carlo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi
Italian architect
Pirro Ligorio
Italian architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
Recreation, engraving by Abraham Bosse, 1635.
Abraham Bosse
French artist
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
Italian theatrical designer and architect
Antonio Contino
Italian architect
Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger
Italian architect
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder
Italian architect

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