Sant' Agostino was one of the first churches in Rome to be built in the Renaissance style. It was funded by Guillaume d’Estouteville, the Cardinal Camerlengo under Pope Sixtus IV (r. 1471-84), and built between 1479 and 1483 by Jacopo da Pietrasanta (died 1495), who used blocks of travertine plundered from the Colosseum, in the construction of the facade. Comments are closed.
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