Andrea Sansovino

[san-soh-vee-noh; It. sahn-saw-vee-naw]

Sansovino, Andrea, c.1460-1529, Florentine sculptor and architect of the High Renaissance, b. Monte Sansavino. His real name was Andrea Contucci. He trained under Antonio Pollaiuolo and worked in Florence, Rome, and Loreto. His tombs of Cardinals Sforza and Basso in Rome and his statues and reliefs for church decoration, such as the graceful Virgin and Child with St. Anne (1512) at San Agostino, were greatly admired.

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Andrea Sansovino

orig. Andrea Contucci

(born circa 1467, Monte San Savino, Republic of Florence—died 1529, Monte San Savino) Italian sculptor. The fine detail and high emotional pitch of his marble Altar of the Sacrament in Florence's Santo Spirito (1485–90) typify his early work; his marble Baptism of Christ (1502), above one of the Baptistery doors in Florence, marks a shift to High Renaissance style with its dignified poses and strong but controlled emotion. His tombs for two cardinals in Rome's Santa Maria del Popolo (completed 1509) were his most influential innovation, with their triumphal-arch form and the novel sleeping attitude of the deceased cardinals. His works display the transition from early to High Renaissance, and his graceful style acted as a counterbalance to Michelangelo's titanic, muscular sculpture throughout the 16th century.

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Andrea

Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:

In English, German, Hungarian, Portuguese and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András or Andre.
In Italy and Albania, Andrea is a masculine name, the equivalent of Andrew.
In Croatia and Slovenia, Andre(j)a is a feminine name, while Andrija, Andre and Andrej are masculine forms.
Andréa, with an accent mark, is a Brazilian Portuguese form of Andrea. The Portuguese equivalent (feminine of André) would be Andreia.
In Basque language Andrea is a variant of Andere, both used as woman names, in fact it means "woman, lady".
"Andrea" in this particular lettering, can be pronounced in many ways.

Origin of the name

It derives from the Greek ανήρ (anēr), genitive ανδρός (andrós), that indicates the man with reference to its masculinity, as opposed to the woman (while man in the meaning of human genre is άνθρωπος, ánthropos, ανθρώπου, anthrópou).

The original Greek name, Andréas, represents the hypocoristic, with endearment functions, of male Greek names composed with the andr- prefix, like Androgeos, Androcles, Andronikos.

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In the year 2006, it was the third most popular name with 3.1% of newborns. It is one of the few Italian male names ending in a, with others being Elia (Elias), Enea (Aeneas), Luca (Lucas), Mattia (Matthias), Nicola (Nicholas), Tobia (Tobias).

It is traditionally popular because, according to the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was one of the earliest disciples of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles.

In various Latin-American countries the name Andrea is one of the most common and popular among girl names.