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Ammanati took his original designs for the Ponte Santa Trinità to Michelangelo shortly before the latter's death, and the older artist criticized and corrected them. The soaring flight of the roadway over the river, the tension of the flattened arches, and the potent simplicity of the wedge-shaped pylons should be credited to Michelangelo.
The bridge was blown up by the Germans in 19443 and rebuilt after the war, using the original plans, and the same quarry, located in the Boboli Gardens behind Palazzo Pitti.
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