Ammanati, Bartolommeo (1511–1592)

Italian Mannerist sculptor and architect. He was influenced by Michelangelo, studied under Andrea Sansovino, and did much work for Pope Julius III. With Giorgio Vasari, he built the pope's residence in Rome, the Villa Giulia. In Florence his works include the Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della Signoria (1560–75), the rusticated garden courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti (1560), and the graceful bridge of Santa Trinità, completed in 1570 (destroyed in 1944 but rebuilt in 1957).