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Sangallo

[ sahng-gahl-law ]

noun

  1. An·to·nio Pic·co·ni da [ahn-, taw, -nyaw peek-, kaw, -nee dah], Antonio Cordiani, 1484?–1546, Italian architect and engineer.
  2. his uncle Giu·lia·no da [joo-, lyah, -nawdah], ( Giuliano Giamberti ), 1445–1516, Italian architect, sculptor, and engineer.


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The vast subject of Troy and the Renaissance, for example, is represented by very few objects, including maiolica plate, a Rubens picture and a single tabletop version of the endlessly copied Hellenistic sculpture of the Trojan priest Laocoön that was excavated in 1506 in a vineyard in Rome, with Michelangelo and a couple of members of the Sangallo family present.

He mails a copy of the structure’s elevations to Giuliano da Sangallo, the Pope’s chief architect.

Among the highlights of the exhibition is Bastiano da Sangallo’s copy of a design for an unrealized mural known as the Battle of Cascina.

The most vivid piece of evidence is a large 1540 oil painting here by Bastiano da Sangallo, who saw the finished cartoon before it was whitewashed out.

His double portrait of the architect Giuliano da Sangallo and his father, loaned to the exhibition by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, was so remarkable, according to Hirschauer, that it was at first attributed to Albrecht Durer, the great German painter of the Northern Renaissance.

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