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Sanmicheli, Michele: Palazzo Grimani Palazzo Grimani, on the Grand Canal, Venice, by Michele Sanmicheli, c. 1556 (completed c. 1575)
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Born 1484 • Italy
Died 1559 (aged 75) • Venice • Italy
Movement / Style Mannerism

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Sanmicheli, Michele: Palazzo Grimani
Palazzo Grimani, on the Grand Canal, Venice, by Michele Sanmicheli, c. 1556 (completed c. 1575)
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Francesco di Giorgio
Italian artist
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Italian architect
Giovanni Maria Falconetto
Italian painter and architect
Martino Longhi, the Elder
Italian architect
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Giulio Romano: Palazzo del Te
Giulio Romano
Italian artist and architect
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Italian artist and author
Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola, Italy, by Giacomo da Vignola, 1559–73
Giacomo da Vignola
Italian architect
“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Bartolommeo Ammannati
Italian sculptor and architect
Sebastiano Serlio: treatise on architecture
Sebastiano Serlio
Italian architect
Grotto Courtyard
Federico Sustris
Italian painter and architect
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Italy
Giacomo della Porta
Italian architect
Vincenzo Scamozzi
Italian architect
Church of Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome, by Carlo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi
Italian architect
Pirro Ligorio
Italian architect
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
Antonio Contino
Italian architect

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