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Assumption Of The Virgin (Tintoretto)
''Assumption of the Virgin'' is a c.1555 oil on canvas painting by Tintoretto, now in the I Gesuiti, Venice, I Gesuiti. It and ''Presentation at the Temple (Tintoretto, Gallerie dell'Accademia), Presentation at the Temple'' (Gallerie dell'Accademia) were both originally painted for the church of Santa Maria della Sanità, Milan, Santa Maria dei Crociferi. Its colouring is similar to that of Paolo Veronese and Carlo Ridolfi wrote of it that originally Veronese had gained the commission for it before Tintoretto took it from him by promising to produce the work in Veronese's style. References Bibliography * Robert Echols and Frederik Ilchman (ed.s), ''Tintoretto 1519 - 1594'', Marsilio, 2018, ISBN 978-88-317-1135-7. * Carlo Bernardi, ''L'opera completa del Tintoretto'', Milano, Rizzoli, 1970. * Marina Sennato, ''Dizionario Larousse della pittura italiana: dalle origini ai nostri giorni'', Gremese Editore, 1998, ISBN 88-7742-185-1. External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacopo Tintoretto - The Assumption - WGA22445
Jacopo (also Iacopo) is a masculine Italian language, Italian given name, derivant from Latin language, Latin ''Iacōbus''. It is an Italian variant of Giacomo. * Jacopo Aconcio (), Italian religious reformer * Jacopo Bassano (1592), Italian painter * Iacopo Barsotti (1921–1987), Italian mathematician * Jacopo da Bologna (), Italian composer * Tintoretto, Jacopo Comin (1518–1594), Italian painter otherwise known as Tintoretto * Pontormo, Jacopo Carucci (1494–1557), Italian painter otherwise known as Pontormo * Jacopo Corsi (1561–1602), Italian composer * Jacopo da Leona (died 1277), Italian poet * Jacopo Peri (1561–1633), Italian composer * Jacopo della Quercia (1438), Italian sculptor * Jacopo Riccati (1676–1754), Italian mathematician * Jacopo Sadoleto (1477–1547), Italian Catholic cardinal * Jacopo M. (1989), Italian Communicator, upholder of the European Commission Fictional characters: * Jacopo, a key character in the 2002 film version of ''The Count of Monte Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tintoretto
Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with which he painted, and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso ("The Furious"). His work is characterised by his muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style. Life The years of apprenticeship Tintoretto was born in Venice in 1518. His father, Battista, was a dyer, or ''tintore''; hence the son got the nickname of Tintoretto, "little dyer", or "dyer's boy". Tintoretto is known to have had at least one sibling, a brother named Domenico, although an unreliable 17th-century account says his siblings numbered 22. The family was believed to have originated from Brescia, in Lombardy, then part of the Republic of Venice. Older studies ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Gesuiti, Venice
The church of Santa Maria Assunta, known as I Gesuiti, is a religious building in Venice, northern Italy. It is located in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Campo dei Gesuiti, not far from the Fondamenta Nuove. History According to some sourcesGiangiacopo Fontana, ''Illustrazione storico critica della Chiesa di Santa Sofia'' del 1836 the construction of the church was financed by a certain Pietro or, according to Doge Andrea Dandolo, by Cleto Gussoni in 1148 and was surrounded by grounds, bodies of water and wetlands. In 1154 Cleto turned it into a hospital for the poor who were ill, both men and women. Another Gussoni, by the name of Buonavere, relative and heir of Cleto, ultimately provided vineyards and some of his other estates in the districts of Chioggia and Pellestrina. In the monastery of I Gesuiti a member of the same family, Marco Gussoni, took his vows, miraculously cured by the then Blessed, later Saint Luigi Gonzaga. It is said that in 1601 Marco, struck down by a grav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presentation At The Temple (Tintoretto, Gallerie Dell'Accademia)
''Presentation at the Temple'' is a 1554-1556 oil on canvas painting by Tintoretto, painted for the church of Santa Maria dei Crociferi and now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice. Presentazione di Carlo Bernardi, ''L'opera completa del Tintoretto'', Milano, Rizzoli, 1970, p. 97, 98. It was commissioned by the ''Scuola dei Bottari'', which is referenced by a small barrel or ''botte'' on the steps below the altar. Robert Echols and Frederik Ilchman (ed.s), ''Tintoretto 1519 - 1594'', Marsilio, 2018, p. 114, ISBN 978-88-317-1135-7. References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Presentation at the Temple (Tintoretto, Gallerie dell'Accademia) 1556 paintings Paintings by Tintoretto Paintings in the Gallerie dell'Accademia Tintoretto Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallerie Dell'Accademia
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the art academy of Venice, from which it became independent in 1879, and for which the Ponte dell'Accademia and the Accademia boat landing station for the ''vaporetto'' water bus are named. The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili. History Early history The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756.Accademia di belle arti di Venezia, 1750–2010. Cenni storici (in Italian). A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria Della Sanità, Milan
Santa Maria della Sanità also known as dei Crociferi, is a late-Baroque architecture, Baroque or Rococo style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Durini #19 in Milan, in the region of Lombardy in Italy. History The church was commissioned by the Camillians, Camillian order, who were also known as the ''Crociferi'', and design of the church with its five chapels was originally by Giovanni Battista Quadrio. The undulating facade, described as a ''violoncello'' and with a roofline in the shape of the late 18th century marshal's bicorn hat, was designed by Carlo Federico Pietrasanta. The facade remains in brick, and never finished with marble decoration. The adjacent Collegio of the Camillians was privatized when the order was suppressed in 1799 and is now divided into apartments. Inside the church, Ferdinando Porta painted the ''St Joseph in Agony'' and Pietro Maggi painted the ''Assumption of the Virgin'' in the choir. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The Feast in the House of Levi'' (1573). Included with Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese is one of the "great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the ''cinquecento''" and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century.Rosand, 107 Known as a supreme colorist, and after an early period with Mannerism, Paolo Veronese developed a naturalist style of painting, influenced by Titian. His most famous works are elaborate narrative cycles, executed in a dramatic and colorful style, full of majestic architectural settings and glittering pageantry. His large paintings of biblical feasts, crowded with figures, painted for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially famous, and he was also the leadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Ridolfi
Carlo Ridolfi (1594–1658) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the Baroque period. Biography Ridolfi was born in Lonigo near Vicenza. He was a pupil of the painter Antonio Vassilacchi (Aliense). He painted a ''Visitation'' for the Ognissanti and an ''Adoration of the Magi'' for San Giovanni Elemosinario in Venice. He copied Tintoretto's ''Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet'' in San Marcuola, before it came to the collection of King Charles I of England. Ridolfi's copy still remains in San Marcuola. He was certainly best known, in his own day and ever since, as an author on art. Carlo Ridolfi was also an important collector of drawings, such as Giorgio Vasari. Many of these drawings are conserved in the ''Christ Church Library'' (Oxford). Ridolfi wrote a biography of the Venetian painters in 1648 titled ''Le maraviglie dell'Arte ovvero, Le vite degli Illustri Pittori Veneti e dello Stato''. He also wrote ''La vita di Giacopo Robusti'' (a biography of Tintoretto) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1555 Paintings
Year 1555 ( MDLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 22 – The Kingdom of Ava in Upper Burma falls. * February 2 – The Diet of Augsburg begins. * February 4 – John Rogers suffers death by burning at the stake at Smithfield, London, the first of the Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation under Mary I of England. * February 8 – Laurence Saunders becomes the second of the Marian Protestant martyrs in England, being led barefoot to his death by burning at the stake in Coventry. * February 9 – Rowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk, and John Hooper, deposed Bishop of Gloucester, are burned at the stake in England. * April 10 – Pope Marcellus II succeeds Julius III as the 222nd pope. He will reign for 22 days. * April 17 – After 18 months of siege, the Republic of Siena surrenders to the Florentine–Imperial army. * May 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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