Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1486)

Jacopo Sansovino

Italian architect and sculptor

Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance architecture. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of…