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St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest of all Roman Catholic churches and by any standards a grandiose achievement, but it inevitably suffered from the competing visions of all the architects called in to collaborate — Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Baldassare Peruzzi, Michelangelo, Giacomo Della Porta, Domenico Fontana, and Carlo Maderno — each adding, subtracting, and modifying, often with a pope looking over his shoulder.
One result is that Maderno’s porticoed façade and nave obstruct a clear view of Michelangelo’s dome from the square.
The 16th-century Rialto Bridge is one of Venice’s architectural icons, designed by Antonio da Ponte for a competition entered by Michelangelo, Palladio, and Sansovino — it’s still one of the liveliest spots in town.
"Anyone who has seen Michelangelo's David has no need to see anything else by any other sculptor, living or dead," gushed his first biographer, his contemporary Giorgio Vasari.
In Florence, where his family had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their supremacy, Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici (1449–1492) found time to encourage the art of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, the young Leonardo, and tempestuous Michelangelo.