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A major sculptor and architect of the sixteenth century, Jacopo took the name of his master Andrea Sansovino. He was active in Rome until the Sack in 1527, when he moved to Venice, becoming the major sculptor there in the middle of the century. See Kress, p. 78; Forrer 5, pp. 332-34. For Sansovino as a sculptor see Weihrauch in Thieme-Becker 32, pp. 465- 70 and John Pope-Hennessy, Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture, revised ed., London/New York 1970, pp. 78-85, 350-53, 404-10. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976