Jacopo Sansovino is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jacopo Sansovino as Italian artist (1486–1570).
Jacopo Sansovino was born at Florence in 1486. His recorded nationality is Italy.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as architect, sculptor and master builder.
Among his best-known works are Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Palazzo Corner and Piazza della Loggia. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jacopo Sansovino died in 1570, aged 84. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
- Notable work: Palazzo Corner
- Notable work: Piazza della Loggia
- Notable work: Bacchus
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