Sante Lombardo (1504–1560) was an Italian architect.
Biography
He was born in
Venice
Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...
, the son of
Tullio Lombardo. It is mentioned for the first time in sources in 1534, when he was appointed ''protomastro'' of the
Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice (under the supervision of his father), for which he provided the internal and external decoration.
In 1535 he received a contract for an altar in the church of
San Felice; he probably contributed to the latter's reconstruction in 1551–1556. Later Lombard took in part in the construction of
Palazzo Malipiero-Trevisan.
In 1536 he designed the new church of
San Giorgio dei Greci
San Giorgio dei Greci () is a church in the ''sestiere'' (neighborhood) of Castello, Venice, northern Italy. It was the center of the Scuola dei Greci, the Confraternity of the Greeks in Venice. Around this period there was a similar church in Na ...
, for which he led the construction work until 1548.
He died in 1560 in Venice.
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1504 births
1560 deaths
16th-century Italian architects
Italian Renaissance architects
Republic of Venice architects