Historical Dictionary of Renaissance

SANSOVINO, JACOPO

(1486-1570)
Florentinearchitect and sculptor, born Jacopo Tatti. He was a pupil of Andrea Sansovino, whose surname he took when he followed his master toRomein 1505. His early career was in Rome, but after the Sack of Rome by the imperial army in 1527 he settled inVenice, where he did his most important work. His most famous architectural work was the Bib-lioteca Marciana in Venice, which was begun in 1536 and completed a decade after Sansovino's death; it was praised byAndrea Palladioand subsequent critics because of its historically correct usage of theclassicalarchitectural orders.

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