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SIMONE (1457—1508)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 1 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMONE (1457—1508)  , See also:nephew of See also:Antonio See also:Pollaiuolo, a celebrated architect, was See also:born in See also:Florence and went to See also:Rome in 1484; there he entered his See also:uncle's studio and studied See also:architecture . On his return to Florence he was entrusted with the completion of the See also:Strozzi See also:palace begun by Benedetto de Maiano, and the See also:cornice on the See also:facade has earned him lasting fame . His highly coloured accounts of Rome earned for him the See also:nickname of it Cronaca (chronicler) . About 1498 he built the See also:church of See also:San See also:Francesco at See also:Monte and the See also:vestibule of the See also:sacristy of Santo Spirito . In collaboration with Guiliano da See also:Sangallo he designed the See also:great See also:hall in the Palazzo Vecchio . He was a See also:close friend and adherent of See also:Savonarola . See also Maud Cruttwell, Antonio Pollaiuolo (1907) .

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