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Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (12 April 1485 – 3 August 1546), born Antonio Cordiani, was an Italian architect active during the Renaissance.

Biography

Sangallo was born in Florence, the son of Bartolomeo Piccioni. His grandfather Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker, and his uncles Giuliano and Antonio da Sangallo were noted architects of the time.

He went while very young to

Santa Maria di Loreto

. The lower order is square in plan, the next octagonal; and the whole is surmounted by a fine dome and lofty lantern. The lantern is, however, a later addition.

Sangallo also carried out the lofty and well-designed church of

Farnese Palace, afterwards completed by Michelangelo, a very rich and well-proportioned specimen of the then favorite design, a series of arches between engaged columns supporting an entablature, an arrangement taken from the outside of the Colosseum

.

He built a palace for himself on the Via Giulia that was later bought in 1649 by the Sacchetti family and renamed the Palazzo Sacchetti. It is still owned by the Sacchetti family but the building itself has been subject to a number of alterations.

After the

double spiral staircase, like the Well of Saladin in the citadel of Cairo

.

He often worked with his brother Giovanni Battista da Sangallo. The two worked on numerous projects together, Giovanni Battista responsible for measuring and surveying.

Selected works

Palazzo Baldassini in Rome.
Churches of Santa Maria di Loreto and San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome.
Villa Madama in Rome (started 1518).
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (chief architect from 1520 on).
Palazzo Farnese in Rome (1534–46), designed for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
.

Cappella Paolina in the Vatican
Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Old Fortress, Livorno

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sangallo". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.