Ammanati

American  

[ah-muh-nah-tee, ahm-mah-nah-tee] / ˌɑ məˈnɑ ti, ˌɑm mɑˈnɑ ti /

noun

1. Bartolommeo 1511–92, Italian architect and sculptor.

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Example Sentences

The buildings were erected, as we now see them, by Ammanati, in 1582, for Gregory XIII.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Eleanor's architect—or rather Cosimo's, for though the Grand Duchess paid, the Grand Duke controlled—was Ammanati, the designer of the Neptune fountain in the Piazza della Signoria.

From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

At the corner of the Via Fontanella and the Corso is the handsome Palazzo Ruspoli, built by Ammanati in 1586.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

The unfinished, half-ruinous palace, designed in 1444 by Brunellesco, was a century later sold by the Pitti, quite ruined now, to Eleonora, the wife of Grand Duke Cosimo, and was finished by Ammanati.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward

Of Ammanati, who is also among the first of our Academicians, enough having been said of him in the description of the works of Jacopo Sansovino, there is no need to speak further here.

From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Vasari, Giorgio