Gate of the
Leonine Walls built at the half
of the ninth century, known as SAXONUM GATE for the settlement of the
Saxons, the English of Wessex, the South West of England, in this area since
the beginning of the eighth century
The current
gate was begun in 1543 by Antonio Cordini aka Antonio
da Sangallo the Younger (1483/1546) for Paul III (1534/49), discontinued
the following year due to a quarrel with Michelangelo Buonarroti on the design
of fortifications and left unfinished
The CONCAVE
FAÇADE is an interesting incunabulum of Baroque curves that would appear almost
a century later
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