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1479 · Sant'Agostino, Rome

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The only building that is known to be by Pietrasanta is the church of Sant'Agostino in Rome, built for Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville. By the summer of 1481 the aisles and nave were vaulted and by the following winter the façade was almost completed. An inscription on the façade records a completion date of 1483.

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Jacopo da Pietrasanta

? – 1495

Jacopo (Giacomo) da Pietrasanta, Italian stonemason and architect. He was active in Rome in the second half of the fifteenth century. He came from a family of marble workers and masons, and worked on behalf of all the Roman Pontiffs from Nicholas V to Innocent VIII. His main work is the completion and expansion of the church and convent of Sant'Augustino in Rome, commissioned by the French Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville.

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