Abstract
JACOPO SANSOVINO was forty-one years old when he arrived in Venice in 1527. His great Venetian buildings, the Library of San Marco (fig. 1) and the Palazzo Cornaro (fig. 2), stem from the thirties and forties. It has often been observed that the monumentality and grandeur of Sansovino's Venetian style have no antecedents in Venetian architecture, but little has been done to investigate the sources of the artist's style. Yet fifty-year-old architects of the sixteenth century were usually mature and welldefined artistic personalities.1 This paper, then, has a twofold purpose. It will try to characterize Sansovino's ambience during his early years in Florence and Rome, emphasizing the structures with which Sansovino is known or can be surmised to have
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