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...addition to Michelangelo, there were lesser but still extraordinary sculptors waiting pliably at Cosimo's beck and call. There was the fabulously eloquent Giambologna. There was Bartolommeo Ammannati, who made the Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della Signoria, designed the courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti and created the exquisite curve of the Sta. Trinita bridge over the Arno. Benvenuto Cellini did for Cosimo the bronze Perseus decapitating Medusa that still stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi, an allegory of the triumph of Virtue over Cosimo's enemies. Medusa's gore, solidified in bronze streams, is one of the most...
...addition to Michelangelo, there were lesser but still extraordinary sculptors waiting pliably at Cosimo's beck and call. There was the fabulously eloquent Giambologna. There was Bartolommeo Ammannati, who made the Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della Signoria, designed the courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti and created the exquisite curve of the Sta. Trinita bridge over the Arno. Benvenuto Cellini did for Cosimo the bronze Perseus decapitating Medusa that still stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi, an allegory of the triumph of Virtue over Cosimo's enemies. Medusa's gore, solidified in bronze streams, is one of the most...
Michelangelo and built by famed Architect Bartolomeo Ammannati in 1569, the "bridge of the beautiful curve" had enchanted generations of Florentines with its unobtrusive elegance, its "mysterious arches" that followed no known geometric curve or architectural formula. "Away from Florence," said famed Art Historian Bernard Berenson, "this was always the image which came to my mind...
...project was entrusted to Riccardo Gizdulich, a blond, cigar-smoking architect who has built some of Italy's most radically modern structures. He studied photographs, the designs left by Ammannati, notes left by the head mason. Under his direction, the Arno was dammed, and the river bottom was searched for fragments left after the explosion. Studying the shards, Gizdulich deduced that the ancient masons had used special chiseling and cutting implements now unknown. Gizdulich designed similar tools and had them made by hand, taught a group of artisans to use them. The pieces of the old bridge were lovingly...
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