SANGALLO, properly GIAMBERTI, a family of distin-
guished architects, of whom the eldest was GIULIANO GIAM-
BERTI, who was born at Florence in 1443. Having been
early sent, with his brother Antonio, to an ingenious carver
in wood, he afterwards renounced this profession for that of military engineer to Lorenzo de' Medici. Giuliano now resolved to pursue architecture, and had an early opportunity of displaying his skill on the cloister of the Church of Santa Maddalena de' Pazzi at Florence, which he ornamented with a row of Ionic pillars of peculiar capitals, such as were not then known. Being afterwards commissioned by Lorenzo to erect a convent near the gate of San Gallo, the architect received the title of Da San Gallo at first in jest from his master, but subsequently he adopted it, together with his whole family. Among his numerous works was a palace erected at Savona, now the convent of Santa Chiara, for his patron the Cardinal della Rovere. On the death of Bramante, he was offered the appointment of architect of St Peter's, which he was obliged to decline from growing infirmities. He died at Florence in 1517, aged seventy-four.