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SANSOVINO, ANDREA

ändrĕˈä sänsōvēˈnō, c.1460–1529, Florentine sculptor and architect of the High Renaissance, b. Monte Sansavino. His real name was Andrea Contucci. He trained under Antonio Pollaiuolo and worked in Florence, Rome, and Loreto. His tombs of Cardinals Sforza and Basso in Rome and his statues and reliefs for church decoration, such as the graceful Virgin and Child with St. Anne (1512) at San Agostino, were greatly admired.

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Mantegna: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings
Book by E · Tietze-Conrat; Phaidon Press, 1955
Subjects:	Mantegna, Andrea--1431-1506
...given back to Mantegna only after its restoration in 1885. Sansovino Venezia , edit. of 1604, p. 189 mentions as existing in...plausible that our painting may be the first mentioned by Sansovino, and may later on have had attached to it the name of Giovanni...

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects:	Art--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
...name for red chalk. Sansovino, Andrea c. 1467/70-1529...Vasari says that Andrea also worked in Portugal...some scholars. Jacopo Sansovino was Andreas main pupil...He trained under Andrea Sansovino , whose name he adopted...

Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects
Book by Giorgio Vasari, E. H. Blashfield, E. W. Blashfield, A. A. Hopkins; Charles Scribners Sons, 1902
Subjects:	Art--Italy--History
...works for, iv. 52 . Sansovino, Andrea, works in Lucca, ii...of Jacopo, iv . 330 . Sansovino, Francesco, son of Jacopo, iv . 330 . Sansovino, Il Jacopo Tatti , iv...schooling; apprenticed to Andrea Contucci, 305 ; facility...

Praeger Picture Encyclopedia of Art: A Comprehensive Survey of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Crafts, Their Methods, Styles and Technical Terms, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Book by Frederick A. Praeger; F.A. Praeger, 1958
Subjects:	Art--Dictionaries, Art--History
...Isidoro 399 Rome, S. Maria del Populo s. Sansovino, Andrea 315 Rome, S. Maria della Pace s. Bramante...Palazzo Farnese 310 Sanmicheli, Michele 315 Sansovino, Andrea 315 Sansovino, Jacopo 265 , 273 , 315 ; ill. 18 , 196...

Italy 1530-1630
Book by Eric Cochrane, Julius Kirshner; Longman Press, 1988
Subjects:	Italy--History--16th Century, Italy--History--17th Century
...Jacopo, 24 , 69 , 226 , 243 , 272 Sansovino, Andrea, 72 Sansovino, Francesco, 82 , 95 , 179 Sansovino, Jacopo, 59 , 62 , 92 , 97 Santacroce...Scrupoli, Lorenzo, 193 Scutellari, Andrea, 217 Sebastiano del Piombo Sebastiano...

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Portal of Empire and Wealth: Jacopo Sansovino's Entrance to the Venetian Mint
Journal article by Eugene J. Johnson; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004
Subjects:	Architects, Architecture, Historic buildings & sites, Sansovino, Jacopo, Sculpture
...sixteenth century, Jacopo Sansovino, and despite its prepossessing...whose limit they mark. Sansovino, and some of his employers...Piazza S. Marco, in which Sansovino played a leading role and...was the passion of the doge Andrea Gritti,54 who was joined...

Fabius Maximus in Venice: Doge Andrea Gritti, the War of Cambrai, and the Rise of Habsburg Hegemony, 1509-1530 [*
Journal article by Robert Finlay; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects:	Gritti, Andrea--Military policy, Holy Roman Empire--History, Venice, Italy--History
...however, Francesco Sansovino records that everyone in Venice mourned Andrea Gritti, for "the Most...E da saper, sier Andrea Griti provedor zeneral...1980, 135. (195.) Sansovino, 594: "il Principe...Nicolo. 1793. Vita di Andrea Gritti doge di Venezia...

Creative Partners: The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati *
Journal article by Victoria Kirkham; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects:	Aristocracy--Social aspects, Italy--16th century AD, Sculptors--Behavior
...learned his art from the first Sansovino Andrea and from this second one in...in importing his countryman Andrea Sansovino t o head the workshop in 1513...746) that he was critical of Andrea Sansovino, the artist in charge of the...

Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects and Builders, C. 1430-1500
Journal article by Mary E. Frank; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects and Builders, c. 1430-1500 (Book)--Book reviews
...promulgated by the sixteenth-century Doge Andrea Gritti and expressed first by Jacopo Sansovino and then Andrea Palladio, began in spirit and in stone...coincidental. The subsequent addition of Andrea Gritti in the same format on the Piazzetta...

"Fare Una Cosa Morta Parer Viva": Michelangelo, Rosso, and the (Un) Divinity of Art
Journal article by Stephen J. Campbell; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 84, 2002
Subjects:	Art criticism, Art history, God, Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (1475-1564), Rosso, Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (1492-1540), Visual artists
...characterized by artists such as Jacopo Sansovino, Benedetto da Rovezzano, and Andrea Ferrucci, who in their Apostle...Virgin of the Harpies of 1517, Andrea del Sarto alluded to such cult...whether hostile, like Giovanni Andrea Gilio, or defensive, like...

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Form in Poetry: Bruce Boucher on Andrea Palladio
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 47, September 2008
Subjects:	Architects--Criticism and interpretation, Architects--Exhibitions, Palladio, Andrea--Criticism and interpretation, Palladio, Andrea--Exhibitions
...Form in Poetry: Bruce Boucher on Andrea Palladio. ANDREA PALLADIO IS THE MOST famous architect...drawings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Sansovino, and others, the show will evoke...INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO AND THE AUTHOR OF ANDREA PALLADIO: THE ARCHITECT IN HIS...

Palladio's Vicenza: Charles Hind Looks at the Work of One of the Most Influential Architects in the World, in His Home City of Vicenza, Northern Italy
Magazine article by Charles Hind; History Today, Vol. 57, August 2007
Subjects:	Architects--Appreciation, Palladio, Andrea--Appreciation, Vicenza, Italy--Appreciation, Vicenza, Italy--Description and travel
...state architect of Venice. Andrea Palladio was not born in Vicenza...known as a sculptor. In 1524, Andrea was apprenticed to one of the...Romano from Mantua, Jacopo Sansovino from Venice and Michele Sanmichele...Lurking in the wings was Andrea Palladio, who was quietly...

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encyclopedia articles on: Sansovino Andrea - 3 results

Sansovino, Andrea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SANSOVINO, ANDREA andre a sansove no, c.1460 1529, Florentine sculptor and architect of the High Renaissance, b. Monte Sansavino. His real name was Andrea Contucci. He trained under Antonio Pollaiuolo and worked in Florence...

Sansovino, Jacopo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SANSOVINO, JACOPO ya kopo sansove no, 1486 1570, Italian sculptor and architect...taken in place of his own, Tatti, as homage to the Florentine sculptor Andrea Sansovino , under whom he was apprenticed. After early years devoted to sculpture...

Contucci, Andrea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CONTUCCI, ANDREA* see Sansovino, Andrea . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.*

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