Ponte a Santa Trinità
bridge, Florence, Italy
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design by Ammannati
- In Bartolommeo Ammannati
…Florence are the Bridge of Santa Trinità (1567–69; destroyed 1944, rebuilt 1958), which contains elliptical arches, and the Fountain of Neptune (1567–70); the latter, in the Piazza della Signoria, features a colossal marble statue of that deity. In his old age Ammannati was strongly influenced by the Counter-Reformation philosophy of…
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…bridge to the palace, the Santa Trinità Bridge (1567–69; restored).
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Ammannati’s elegant Santa Trinità Bridge (1569) in Florence, with two elliptical arches, carried pedestrians and later automobiles until it was destroyed during World War II; it was afterward rebuilt with many of the original materials recovered from the riverbed.
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