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Arnaldo Dell'Ira
Arnaldo Dell'Ira (21 March 1903 – January 1943) was an Italian architect. He was hired as a draftsman in the main architectural firms of his time, both in Rome and Florence, and with his work well represents the Italian architectural culture during the interwar period in all its components, reflecting the contrasting formal trends (first secessionists, futurists and Art Deco, later rationalists and classicists). Life Dell'Ira was born in Livorno, in a family of liberal traditions that had long been committed to the politics of the young Italian unified State: his maternal grandfather – whose surname he adopted during his professional activity – had participated in the expedition of the Thousand in Sicily together with Giuseppe Garibaldi and his father, convinced interventionist in World War I, in that of Fiume (today Rijeka in Croatia) with Gabriele D'Annunzio. Having completed his classical studies at the Liceo Gymnasium in Livorno, he moved to Florence to attend the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaldo Dell'Ira (1903-1943), Lampada A Grattacielo, 1929
Arnaldo is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Arnaldo Abrantes (born 1986), Portuguese track and field sprinter * Arnaldo Alonso (born 1979), Paraguayan footballer * Arnaldo André (born 1943), soap-opera Paraguayan actor * Arnaldo Andreoli (1893–1952), Italian gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics * Arnaldo Maria Angelini (1909–1999), Italian scientist, working with Italy's power generation * Arnaldo Antunes (born 1960), writer and composer from Brazil * Arnaldo Baptista (born 1948), Brazilian rock musician and composer * Arnaldo Villalba Benitez (born 1978), Paraguayan footballer * Arnaldo Bonfanti (born 1978), footballer * Arnaldo Carli (1901–1972), Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion * Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (born 1943), the first Brazilian to take charge of the FIFA World Cup final * Arnaldo Cohen, Brazilian pianist * Arnaldo da Silva (born 1964), former Brazilian athlete * Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales, GBM, OBE, JP, Chairman of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firenze Santa Maria Novella Railway Station
Firenze Santa Maria Novella (in English Florence Santa Maria Novella) or Stazione di Santa Maria Novella is a terminus railway station in Florence, Italy. The station is used by 59 million people every year and is one of the busiest in Italy. It is at the northern end of the Florence–Rome high-speed railway line ''Direttissima'', which was completed on 26 May 1992 and the southern end of the Bologna–Florence railway line, opened on 22 April 1934. A new high speed line to Bologna opened on 13 December 2009. The station is also used by regional trains on lines connecting to: Pisa, Livorno ( Leopolda railway); Lucca, Viareggio (Viareggio–Florence railway); Bologna (Bologna–Florence railway) and Faenza ( Faentina railway). History The station was inaugurated on 3 February 1848 to serve the railway to Pistoia and Pisa, and was initially called ''Maria Antonia'' (from the name of the railway, named in honour of Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies); it was much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée (12 February 17284 February 1799) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects. Life Born in Paris, he studied under Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Boffrand and Jean-Laurent Le Geay, from whom he learned the mainstream French Classical architecture Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes even more specifically, from the works of the Roman architect V ... in the 17th and 18th century and the Neoclassicism that evolved after the mid century. He was elected to the Académie Royale d'Architecture in 1762 and became chief architect to Frederick II of Prussia, a largely honorary title. He designed a number of private houses from 1762 to 1778, though most of these no longer exist; notable survivors into the modern era include the Hôtel de Brunoy (demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architecture Parlante
''Architecture parlante'' ( French: ) is architecture that explains its own function or identity. The phrase was originally associated with Claude Nicolas Ledoux, and was extended to other Paris-trained architects of the Revolutionary period, Étienne-Louis Boullée, and Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Emil Kaufmann traced its first use to an anonymous critical essay with Ledoux's work as the subject, written for ''Magasin pittoresque'' in 1852, and entitled "Etudes d'architecture en France". Nonce orders Within more practical applications, nonce orders, invented under the impetus of Neoclassicism, have served as examples of ''architecture parlante''. Several orders, usually simply based upon the Composite order and only varying in the design of the capitals, have been invented under the inspiration of specific occasions, but have not been used again. Thus, they may be termed "nonce orders" on the analogy of nonce words. In 1762, James Adam invented a British order featuring the hera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison. An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler commissioned him to design and construct structures including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin. In this capacity he was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes in Berlin. In February 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. Using misleading statistics, he promoted himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Kreis
Wilhelm Kreis (17 March 1873 – 13 August 1955) was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the foundation of the Federal Republic. Kreis was born in Eltville am Rhein in Hesse-Nassau. He first came to prominence with his 1896 submission for the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, although the commission went to Bruno Schmitz. Around the turn of the century, Kreis designed 58 of the Bismarck Towers, a number of civic projects in Dresden, the 1924 William Marx house, and other significant projects. The 1926 ''Rheinhalle'' (today:Tonhalle Düsseldorf) in Düsseldorf was his first major cultural project, followed by the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden. As opposed to the modernist movement then emerging, Kreis was among those architects like Heinrich Tessenow and Paul Bonatz who continued to work in a historical, conservative style. Kr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metaphysical Art
Metaphysical painting ( it, pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà . The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality, "painting that which cannot be seen". De Chirico, his younger brother Alberto Savinio, and Carrà formally established the school and its principles in 1917. Development Giorgio de Chirico, unlike many artists of his generation, found little to admire in the works of Cézanne and other French modernists, but was inspired by the paintings of the Swiss Symbolist Arnold Böcklin and the work of German artists such as Max Klinger. His painting ''The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon'' (c. 1910) is considered his first Metaphysical work; it was inspired by what de Chirico called a "revelation" that he experienced in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. In subsequent work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaldo Dell'Ira (1903-1943), Piscina Sul Lago Di Garda
Arnaldo is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Arnaldo Abrantes (born 1986), Portuguese track and field sprinter * Arnaldo Alonso (born 1979), Paraguayan footballer * Arnaldo André (born 1943), soap-opera Paraguayan actor * Arnaldo Andreoli (1893–1952), Italian gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics * Arnaldo Maria Angelini (1909–1999), Italian scientist, working with Italy's power generation * Arnaldo Antunes (born 1960), writer and composer from Brazil * Arnaldo Baptista (born 1948), Brazilian rock musician and composer * Arnaldo Villalba Benitez (born 1978), Paraguayan footballer * Arnaldo Bonfanti (born 1978), footballer * Arnaldo Carli (1901–1972), Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion * Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (born 1943), the first Brazilian to take charge of the FIFA World Cup final * Arnaldo Cohen, Brazilian pianist * Arnaldo da Silva (born 1964), former Brazilian athlete * Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales, GBM, OBE, JP, Chairman of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaldo Dell'Ira (1903-1943), Piazza Sul Mare A Livorno
Arnaldo is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Arnaldo Abrantes (born 1986), Portuguese track and field sprinter * Arnaldo Alonso (born 1979), Paraguayan footballer * Arnaldo André (born 1943), soap-opera Paraguayan actor * Arnaldo Andreoli (1893–1952), Italian gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics * Arnaldo Maria Angelini (1909–1999), Italian scientist, working with Italy's power generation * Arnaldo Antunes (born 1960), writer and composer from Brazil * Arnaldo Baptista (born 1948), Brazilian rock musician and composer * Arnaldo Villalba Benitez (born 1978), Paraguayan footballer * Arnaldo Bonfanti (born 1978), footballer * Arnaldo Carli (1901–1972), Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion * Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (born 1943), the first Brazilian to take charge of the FIFA World Cup final * Arnaldo Cohen, Brazilian pianist * Arnaldo da Silva (born 1964), former Brazilian athlete * Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales, GBM, OBE, JP, Chairman of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Army In Russia
The Italian Army in Russia ( it, Armata Italiana in Russia; ARMIR) was an army-sized unit of the Royal Italian Army which fought on the Eastern Front during World War II between July 1942 and April 1943. The ARMIR was also known as the 8th Italian Army and initially had 235,000 soldiers. Formation In July 1942, the ARMIR was created when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini decided to scale up the Italian effort in the Soviet Union. The existing Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia (''Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia'', or CSIR) was expanded to become the ARMIR. Unlike the "mobile" CSIR which it replaced, the ARMIR was primarily an infantry army. A good portion of the ARMIR was made up of mountain troops (''Alpini''), which were ill-suited to the vast, flat expanses of southern Russia. Like the CSIR, the ARMIR included an Aviation Command (''Comando Aereo'') with a limited number of fighters, bombers, and transport aircraft. This command was part of the ''Regia Aero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lungotevere
Lungotevere (Italian for ''Tiber Waterfront'') is an alley or boulevard running along the river Tiber within the city of Rome. The building of the Lungoteveres required the demolition of the former edifices along the river banks and the construction of retaining walls called ''muraglioni'' (massive walls).Rendina-Paradisi, p. 664 History The Lungoteveres were built with the main goal to eliminate and dam the overflows of the Tiber, due to its recurring floods. On July 6, 1875 a law was approved, getting off the demolition of the former buildings on the banks and the achievement of boulevards flanking the river and massive retaining walls (''muraglioni''); the width of the river bed was regulated up to . The Lungoteveres, inspired by the example of Paris, were designed by the engineer Raffaele Canevari, who managed to rescue the Tiber Island adding artificial rapids to the right branch of the Tiber below the Pons Caestius. Many artistically and historically significant build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapienza University Of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It is one of the List of largest universities by enrollment, largest European universities by enrollments and List of oldest universities in continuous operation, one of the oldest in history, founded in 1303. The university is one of the most prestigious Italian universities in the world, commonly ranking first in national rankings and in Southern Europe. In 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 it ranked first in the world for classics and ancient history. Most of the Italian ruling class studied at the Sapienza. The Sapienza has educated numerous notable alumni, including many List of Nobel laureates, Nobel laureates, President of the European Parliament, Presidents of the European Parliament and European Commissioners, heads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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