Matas, Niccolò
Matas, Niccolò (1799–1872). Italian architect of the polychrome Gothic façade of Santa Croce, Florence (1857–63). He worked on several other buildings in Florence, and contributed to the design of the cemetery at San Miniato al Monte (1848–59).
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