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Architects • Artists • Writers born active died
1511, Jul 30 1530s-1560s 1574, Jun 27
an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.
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Architects
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Giorgio Vasari 1511, Jul 30 1530
1569 1574, Jun 27
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder 1453 ca 1470 1534 1534, Dec 27 an Italian Renaissance architect who specialized in the design of fortifications. As a military e... Guglielmo Bergamasco 1485 ca 1519 1539 1550 an Italian architect and sculptor of the Renaissance period. He designed and helped build various... Antonio da Sangallo the Younger 1485, Apr 12 1510 1546 1546, Aug 3 an Italian architect active during the Renaissance. He lived and worked in Rome during the greate... Giulio Romano 1499 ca 1520 1546 1546, Nov 1 an Italian painter and architect. A pupil of Raphael, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissa... Michele Sanmicheli 1484 1510 1559 1559 a Venetian architect and urban planner of Mannerist-style, among the greatest of his era. A tirel... Jean Goujon 1510 ca 1541 1562 1565 ca a French Renaissance sculptor and architect. His most famous works are the sculptural decorations... Michelangelo 1475, Mar 6 1490 1564 1564, Feb 18 an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted a... Giovanni da Udine 1487 1517 1564 1564 an Italian painter and architect born in Udine. A pupil of Raphael and one of his assistants in p... Philibert de l'Orme 1514 ca 1540 1567 1570, Jan 8 a French architect, one of the great masters of the French Renaissance; also wrote two books on a... Galeazzo Alessi 1512 1547 1569 1572, Dec 30 an Italian architect known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm fo... Francesco Laparelli 1521, Apr 5 1556 1569 1570, Oct 20 an Italian architect. He was an assistant of Michelangelo, and later was sent by the Pope to supe... Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola 1507, Oct 1 1536 1573 1573, Jul 7 one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the... Jean Bullant 1515 1537 1574 1578, Oct 13 a French architect and sculptor who built the tombs of Anne de Montmorency, Grand Connétable of ... Pierre Lescot 1510 ca 1530 1579 1578, Sep a French architect active during the French Renaissance, "the man who was first responsible for t... Andrea Palladio 1508, Nov 30 1530 1579 1580, Aug 19 an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek ar... Francesco Primaticcio 1504, Apr 30 1530 1579 1570 an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France. Toge... Juan de Juni 1507 ca 1533 1579 1577 a French–Spanish sculptor, who also worked as a painter and architect. He was born in Joigny, F... Bartolomeo Ammanati 1511 1540 1579 1592 an Italian architect and sculptor. He was more distinguished in architecture than in sculpture. L... Hans Hendrik van Paesschen 1510 ca 1540 1579 1582 a Flemish architect, based in Antwerp, who designed high-style classical buildings in many countr... Jacques Androuet du Cerceau 1510 1549 1579 1584 a well-known French designer of architecture, ornament, furniture, metalwork and other decorative... Koca Mimar Sinan Agha 1489/90 ca 1512 1588 1588, Jul 17 the chief Ottoman architect (Turkish: mimar) and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman the Magnific... Girolamo Cassar 1520 ca 1560 1588 1590 ca a Maltese architect and military engineer who designed many buildings in the capital Valletta. He... Juan de Herrera 1530 1561 1589 1597, Jan 15 a Spanish architect, mathematician and geometrician. One of the most outstanding Spanish architec... Pellegrino Tibaldi 1527 1542 1592 1592/1596 an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter.who spread the style of Italian Manne... Federico Zuccari 1540/41 ca 1550 1609 1609, Aug 6 an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad. His documented caree... Vincenzo Scamozzi 1548, Sep 2 1568 1614 1616, Aug 7 an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venic...
