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Giuliano da Sangallo (c.
1443 –
1516) was an
Italian sculptor, architect and
military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.
Biography
He was born in
Florence. His father
Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by
Cosimo de Medici, and his brother
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger were architects. His son
Francesco da Sangallo was a sculptor. Giuliano was the preferred architect of
Lorenzo de' Medici, so a significant number of his commissions came from the Medici.
During the early part of his life Giuliano worked chiefly for
Lorenzo de' Medici, known as 'the Magnificent', for whom he built a fine palace at
Poggio a Caiano, begun in 1485, between Florence and
Pistoia, and strengthened the fortifications of Florence, Castellana and other places. Lorenzo also employed him to build a monastery of Augustinian Friars outside the Florentine gate of San Gallo, which was destroyed during the siege of Florence in 1530.
It was from this building that Giuliano received the name of Sangallo, which was afterwards used by so many Italian architects. While still in the pay of Lorenzo, Giuliano visited
Naples, and worked there for the king, who sent him back to Florence with presents of money, plate and antique sculpture, the last of which Giuliano presented to his patron Lorenzo. After Lorenzo's death in 1492, Giuliano visited
Loreto, and built the dome of the
Basilica of the Madonna, in spite of serious difficulties arising from its defective piers, which were already built. In order to gain strength by means of a strong cement, Giuliano built his dome with
pozzolana brought from Rome. Soon after this, at the invitation of
Pope Alexander VI, Giuliano went to
Rome, and designed the fine panelled ceiling of
Santa Maria Maggiore. He was also largely employed by
Pope Julius II, both for fortification walls round the
Castel Sant'Angelo, and also to build a palace adjoining the church of
San Pietro in Vincoli, of which Julius had been titular cardinal. Giuliano was much disappointed that
Bramante was preferred to himself as architect for the new
Basilica of St. Peter, and this led to his returning to Florence, where he did much service as a military engineer and builder of fortresses during the war between Florence and
Pisa. Soon after this Giuliano was recalled to Rome by Julius II, who had much need for his military talents both in Rome itself and also during his attack upon
Bologna. For about eighteen months in 1514-1515 Giuliano acted as joint-architect to St. Peter's together with
Raphael, but owing to age and ill-health he resigned this office about two years before his death.
Giuliano's work includes:
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