Jacopo Sansovino
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Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino was an Florentine sculptor and architect of the Italian Renaissance. He was active in Florence, in Rome and in the Republic of Venice, where he worked particularly around Pi
Jacopo Sansovino in a portrait by Tintoretto (c. 1560–1570)
Main façade of the Biblioteca Marciana, facing the Doge's Palace
The Loggetta of Campanile di San Marco, Venice (reconstructed)
The five shops and the Zecca
Biblioteca Marciana
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The Marciana Library or Library of Saint Mark is a public library in Venice, Italy. It is one of the earliest surviving public libraries and repositories for manuscripts in Italy and holds one of the
Jacopo Sansovino
…works in the history of Venetian Renaissance architecture. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his Vita of Sansovino separately. Sansovino was born in Florence, Italy…
Main façade
Reading room
Cardinal Bessarion's letter to Doge Cristoforo Moro and the Senate of Venice, announcing the donation of his library. BNM Lat. XIV, 14 (= 4235), fol. 1r.
Justus van Gent, Portrait of Cardinal Bessarion (c. 1473–1476). Bessarion was created cardinal on 8 January 1440 by Pope Eugene IV.