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The symmetrical Renaissance facade of Palazzo Farnese in Rome, featuring three stories of evenly spaced windows, with people walking and cycling in the foreground.
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The symmetrical Renaissance facade of Palazzo Farnese in Rome, featuring three stories of evenly spaced windows, with people walking and cycling in the foreground.
Palazzo Farnese Exterior view of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Michelangelo, among others, 1513–89.

Sangallo family

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Sangallo family, family of outstanding Florentine Renaissance architects. Its most prominent members were Antonio da Sangallo the Elder; his elder brother Giuliano da Sangallo; Antonio (Giamberti) da Sangallo the Younger, the nephew of Giuliano and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder; and Francesco da Sangallo, the son of Giuliano. Giuliano da Sangallo (1445?–1516) was an architect, sculptor, and military engineer whose masterpiece, a church of Greek-cross plan, Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato (1485–91), was strongly...

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