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Giovanni Antonio Dosio
Italian architect and sculptor (1533–1611)
Giovanni Antonio Dosio (1533–1611) was an Italian architect and sculptor.
Biography
Dosio was born in San Gimignano.
A student of Ammanati, with whom he realized the Villa dell'Ambrogiana, Dosio worked primarily in Rome (1548–75) and Florence (1575–89), with some commissions that took him to Naples.
During his early years in Rome, where he arrived at the age of fifteen, Dosio produced numerous drawings of the ancient and modern city, and developed a reputation as an antiquary while he was still a young man.
S with his teacher Giovanni Antonio Dosio.He worked in the atelier of Raffaello da Montelupo until 1551. His first important Roman commission was the tomb for his friend, the humanist poet Annibale Caro, in 1567; in the interim, he scratched out a miserable living[1] doing restorations of fragments of Roman sculpture.
In 1562 he was carrying out an excavation on behalf of the papal condottiere Torquato Conti, who had extensiv