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Name: Jacopo Sansovino
Birth Date: 1486
Death Date: November 27, 1570
Place of Birth: Florence, Italy
Place of Death: Venice, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist

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Biography of Jacopo Sansovino
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The Italian artist Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570) executed sculpture and architecture in Venice whose quality and extent create much of the effect of the city today. Trained in Florence and active in Rome and Florence in the crucial early decades of the...


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Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (July 2 1486 – November 27 1570), was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that...


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The Art Bulletin
Portal of empire and wealth: Jacopo Sansovino's entrance to the Venetian mint.
09/01/2004: 20,948 words, approx. 70 pages
The Venetian Zecca, or mint, boasts an impressive portal (Fig. 1). Two overlife-size herms of bearded, bare-chested, muscular men--almost mirror images of each other--support a Doric entablature and frame the rusticated, round-arched opening through which one passes into the building. The outer hands...
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The Economist (US)
A tribute well earned; Jacopo Tintoretto.
02/10/2007: 984 words, approx. 3 pages
Prince of drama The master of the Venetian Renaissance finally gets a show he deserves JACOPO TINTORETTO, one of the great masters of Venetian Renaissance painting, has been neglected by critics, curators and gallery-goers for decades. Visitors to Venice often return...
 


 

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