Bartolomeo ammannati biography of barack

Sylwia Krukowska

Vox Latina, 2012

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Sculptor and architectural designer Bartolomeo Ammanati was born 18 June 1511 in Settignano, a village near Florence.

Orphaned at the age of 12, Ammanati earned his living in the workshop of Baccio Bandinelli (c.1523–7), after which time he left Florence for Venice. Jacopo Sansovino had just arrived there, and Ammanati was probably involved on some of Sansovino’s early commissions. Ammanati’s early posed figures are obviously indebted to Michelangelo’s tomb sculptures for the Medici, but they exude a greater feeling of calm, classical beauty, and this betrays Ammanati’s debt to Sansovino.

Ammanati was documented as active in Padua and Vicenza intermittently between 1544 and 1548. He carved a colossal Hercules for the courtyard of the Paduan palazzo of the humanist jurist and antiquarian Marco Mantova Benavides.

In Urbino on 17 April 1550 Ammanati married the poet Laura Battiferri (1523–89). They travelled to Rome to solicit work from the newly elected pope, Julius III. When Julius III died in 1555, Ammanati returned to Florence to enter the service of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. Ammanati’s best-known sculpture from this period is the Fountain of Neptune (c. 1560–75) in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence.

By 1582 ammanati had become so strongly influenced by the Counter-Reformation and the Jesuits, with whom he had been in contact since 1572, that in a famous letter to the Accademia del Disegno in Florence, printed on 22 August 1582, he denounced on moral grounds the public display of nude sculpture (of which he had made many himself). In their wills Ammanati and Battiferri left all their property to the Jesuits in Florence. Ammanati died in Florence on 13 April 1592.

Reference: Charles avery. “Ammanati, Bartolomeo.“ Grove Art Online. Oxford art Online. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T002389.

Fountain of Neptune, c.1560–75, in the

The name of Villa Balestra indicates today the homonymous urban park in Rome (Italy), located on the top of the tufaceous hill overlooking Viale Tiziano. The garden occupies the extreme offshoot of the Monti Parioli, though it belongs to the QuarterPinciano, together with Via Bartolomeo Ammannati from which it is accessed.

History of the villa

Villa Poggio

The present public garden occupies only a fairly small part of the original land of Villa Poggio, which constitutes its historical core.

The construction of the villa is due to the Bolognese cardinal Giovanni Poggio (also referred to as "Poggi"), who was the treasurer of the Apostolic Camera under Paul III and, being highly appreciated by the Pope, was subsequently sent to Spain for three years as nuncio, to collect «the spoils of all Spains» (a sort of general tax collector of the assets owed to the Pope) and then in Germany, which had recently become Lutheran. From these nunciatures he returned a rich man and decided to invest in properties the resources he had accumulated; in Rome he built Villa Poggio, which however did not belong to him for long.

Nonetheless, in 1834 an encyclopedic dictionary of sciences, letters and arts compiled by Antonio Bazzarini still described the Villa – generally called "Poggi" at the time – as «Villa Poggi outside Porta del Popolo in Rome, where cardinals and ambassadors now stop when they make their public entrance to receive the compliments of the gentry».

Villa Balestra

After being passed from hand to hand – the Colonna among others – Villa Poggi was purchased in 1880 by cavalier Giuseppe Balestra, who successfully devoted the agricultural area to vineyards.

The allotment

The Villa was dismembered starting in 1910. In 1928 a part of the park was saved and opened to the public and in 1939 the Municipality of Rome could complete its purchase. The part, which had remained in private hands, was parcell