👨🎨 20 March 1597. Architect (not "Archistar") Antonio Da Ponte passes away in Venice aged 85.
Anyone who designed and built a mastepiece like Rialto Bridge, should well deserve a prominent place in history, don't you agree?
That was not the case for #AntonioDaPonte 🤷♂️, he was selected in a contest held by Venice Doge, who wanted #RialtoBridge rebuilt out of stone. #Rialto was in fact originally a wooden bridge but it kept on burning or being damaged. The best architects of the time were called for projects: #Michelangelo, #Sansovino, #Palladio, #Barozzi, but either were rejected or renounced, for it was impossible to build such a thing in that way!
The words pronounced both by fellow architects and Venetian citizens, which accompanied Da Ponte in 1588 - 1591 (3 years for building the bridge) were: "You're never gonna do it!".
HE DID IT in fact, at the time Rialto was the only bridge that crossed the #GrandCanal... still there today in all its splendour! 🤩 More #VeniceHistory in the Chat Room👇
#20March
Anyone who designed and built a mastepiece like Rialto Bridge, should well deserve a prominent place in history, don't you agree?
That was not the case for #AntonioDaPonte 🤷♂️, he was selected in a contest held by Venice Doge, who wanted #RialtoBridge rebuilt out of stone. #Rialto was in fact originally a wooden bridge but it kept on burning or being damaged. The best architects of the time were called for projects: #Michelangelo, #Sansovino, #Palladio, #Barozzi, but either were rejected or renounced, for it was impossible to build such a thing in that way!
The words pronounced both by fellow architects and Venetian citizens, which accompanied Da Ponte in 1588 - 1591 (3 years for building the bridge) were: "You're never gonna do it!".
HE DID IT in fact, at the time Rialto was the only bridge that crossed the #GrandCanal... still there today in all its splendour! 🤩 More #VeniceHistory in the Chat Room👇
#20March