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Antonio da Ponte: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born 1512 • Venice • Italy
Died c.1595

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The Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, spans the Grand Canal with arched stone architecture and crowds of people crossing above gondolas on the water.
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Timothy Palmer
American architect
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers: Centre Georges Pompidou
Renzo Piano
Italian architect
“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Bartolommeo Ammannati
Italian sculptor and architect
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Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Italian architect
Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel
French engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Scottish engineer
Meigs, Montgomery C.
Montgomery C. Meigs
American engineer and architect
Smeaton, detail of an engraving by W. Bromley, 1798, after a portrait by J. Brown
John Smeaton
British engineer
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Albert Fink
American engineer
Mackinac Bridge
David Barnard Steinman
American engineer
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John Rennie
Scottish civil engineer
Huey P. Long Bridge
Ralph Modjeski
American engineer
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
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Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith
British civil engineer
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Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
German architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
Jean Perronet: Pont de la Concorde
Jean Perronet
French engineer

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