Bartolomeo Ammanati

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Bartolomeo Ammanati

Bartolomeo Ammanati (June 18, 1511 - April 13, 1592) was a Florentine architect

Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
and sculptor

Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
.

nati was born at Settignano

Settignano

Settignano is a picturesque frazione ranged on a hillside northeast of Florence, Italy, with spectacular views that have attracted expatriates for generations....
, near Florence

Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino

Jacopo Sansovino

Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino , was an Italy 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 Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity....
(assisting on the Library of St. Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana
Biblioteca Marciana

The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is a library and Renaissance building in Venice, northern Italy; it is one of the earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in the country, holding one of the greatest classical texts collections in the world....
, Venice) and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
.

He was more distinguished in architecture than in sculpture. He designed many buildings in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, which included work at the Villa Giulia

Villa Giulia

This page describes the building. For the museum itself see National Etruscan Museum.The Villa Giulia is a villa in Rome, Italy. It was built by Pope Julius III in 1550?1555 on what was then the edge of the city....
complex (in collaboration with Vignola

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism....
and Vasari), also at Lucca

Lucca

Lucca is a city in Tuscany, northern central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca....
and Florence.

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Bartolomeo Ammanati (June 18, 1511 - April 13, 1592) was a Florentine architect

Architect

Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
.

Biography

Ammanati was born at Settignano

Settignano

Settignano is a picturesque frazione ranged on a hillside northeast of Florence, Italy, with spectacular views that have attracted expatriates for generations....
, near Florence

Florence

Jacopo Sansovino

Michelangelo

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, which included work at the Villa Giulia

Villa Giulia

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism....
and Vasari), also at Lucca

Lucca

Lucca is a city in Tuscany, northern central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca....
and Florence. His work at the completion of Pitti Palace, commissioned by Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I, is one of his most celebrated achievements (1558-1570), respecting the original style of Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. All of his principal works are in Florence, Italy....
.

He was also employed in 1569 to build the beautiful bridge over the Arno

Arno

Arno may refer to:...
, known as Ponte Santa Trinita

Ponte Santa Trinita

The Ponte Santa Trinit? is a Renaissance bridge in Florence, Italy, spanning the Arno. The Ponte Santa Trinita is the oldest elliptic arch bridge in the world, the three flattened ellipses giving the structure its celebrated elegant appearance....
and one of his most celebrated works. The three arches are elliptic, and though very light and elegant, have resisted the fury of the river, which has swept away several other bridges at different times. It was destroyed in 1944, during World War II, and rebuilt in 1957.

Another of his most important works was the marble and bronze fountain of Neptune for the Piazza della Signoria

Piazza della Signoria

Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio....
. The assignment was originally given to the ageing Bartolommeo Bandinelli

Bartolommeo Bandinelli

Bartolommeo Bandinelli, actually Bartolommeo Brandini , was a Renaissance italy sculptor , draughtsman and painter....
. On his death, Ammanati won the competition for the continuing of this assignment over other famous sculptors, such as Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini was an Italy goldsmith, Painting, sculpture, soldier and musician of the Renaissance, who also wrote a famous autobiography....
and Vincenzo Danti

Vincenzo Danti

Vincenzo Danti was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Perugia.His father was an architect and goldsmith, and Vincenzo developed an interest in drawing and goldsmithing....
. He worked between 1563 and 1565 on the original block of marble (chosen by Bandinelli), together with his assistants, among which Giambologna

Giambologna

Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna , was a sculpture, known for his marble sculpture and bronze sculpture statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style....
. He took Grand Duke Cosimo I as model for Neptune's face. When the work on the ungainly sea god was finished, Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
scoffed at Ammanati that he had ruined a beautiful piece of marble: "Ammanati, Ammanato, che bell' marmo hai rovinato!" Ammanati continued working on this fountain for another ten years, adding, in a mannerist style, around the perimeter suave bronze reclining river gods, laughing satyr

Satyr

In Greek mythology, satyrs are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus ? "satyresses" were a late invention of poets ? that roamed the woods and mountains....
s and marble sea horses emerging from the water. The whole gives nevertheless a coherent impression. The fountain served as an example for future fountain-makers.

Other famous sculptures by Ammanati include:

the marble statue Victory (1540), Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
the marble statue Leda
Leda (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Leda was daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, and wife of the king Tyndareus, of Sparta. Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in Renaissance and later art of Leda and the Swan....
with the Swan in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence.
the bronze statue of Venus
Venus (mythology)

Venus was a major Roman mythology goddess principally associated with love, beauty and sexual reproduction, the equivalent of the Greek mythology Aphrodite....
(1558–59), in the Prado Museum (Madrid
Madrid

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, Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
).
the marble statue Parnassus (1563), Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
the stone statue Allegory of Winter (1563-65), Villa Medici
Villa Medici

The Villa Medici is an architectural complex centred on the villa whose gardens are contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinit? dei Monti in Rome....
, Castello
the bronze statue Goddess Opi (1572-75), Palazzo Vecchio
Palazzo Vecchio

The Palazzo Vecchio is the City hall of Florence, Italy. This massive, romanesque architecture, Crenellation fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany....
, Florence

In 1550 Ammanati married Laura Battiferri, an elegant poet and an accomplished woman. Later in his life he had a religious crisis, influenced by Counter-Reformation

Counter-Reformation

The Counter-Reformation denotes the period of Roman Catholic Church revival from the pontificate of Pope Pius IV in 1560 to the close of the Thirty Years' War, 1648....
piety, which resulted in condemning his own works depicting nudity

Nudity

Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing.Based on scientific research into louse it is estimated that humans have been wearing clothing for 650,000 years....
, and he left all his possessions to the Jesuits.

He died in Florence in 1592.