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Ammanati
[ah-muh-nah-tee, ahm-mah-nah-tee]
noun
Bartolommeo 1511–92, Italian architect and sculptor.
Example Sentences
Michel-Ange, Vasari, Vignole en avaient dessin� les profils; les nymph�es et les fontaines �taient d'Ammanati; les peintures de Taddeo Zuccari.
The statues were entrusted to Bartolomeo Ammanati.
At the corner of the Via Fontanella and the Corso is the handsome Palazzo Ruspoli, built by Ammanati in 1586.
The buildings were erected, as we now see them, by Ammanati, in 1582, for Gregory XIII.
In 1549 the unfinished palace was sold by Luca Pitti's descendants to Eleonora of Toledo, Duke Cosimo's wife, and it was finished by Ammanati during the latter half of the sixteenth century; the wings are a later addition.
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