Example sentences for: ambrogio

How can you use “ambrogio” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the eastern end of Via San Vittore, beyond a noble atrium courtyard, the church of Sant’ Ambrogio is the city’s most revered sanctuary, built from the ninth to the 12th centuries.

  • You can see his pervasive influence on Milanese artists in the decorative paintings of Bernardino Luini and a fine Portrait of a Young Woman by Ambrogio de Predis.

  • The Sala del Mappamondo (named after a lost map of the Sienese world painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti to trace the city’s international banking interests) has two great frescoes by the Siena-born master Simone Martini.

  • In the Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace, council chamber of the Nine Patricians), the full force of Siena’s civic pride strikes home in the impressive allegorical frescoes (1337–1339) by another local master, Ambrogio Lorenzetti.

  • Besides the works of the 14th-century masters Duccio, Pietro, and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, as well as Simone Martini, see Siena’s 16th-century Mannerists, painting at a time when the Renaissance teetered on the brink of effete decadence: Beccafumi’s dreamy Birth of Mary and a highly decorative Christ at the Column by Sodoma.


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