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Badia A Passignano
The Badia di Passignano, also called the ''Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano'' is a historic Benedictine abbey located atop a scenic hilltop, surrounded by cypresses, east of the town of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Province of Florence, Italy. The abbey complex is located about 2 kilometres east of the Siena-Florence autostrada. The settlement is also a frazione of Barberino Tavarnelle. History Documents citing the abbey date to the 890s during the Lombard era. By the year 1049 when a prior hermitage was donated to John Gualbert, the founder of the Vallombrosan Order. The abbey became one of the major sites of the order and itself a wealthy landowner by the mid-14th century. Refurbished and altered over the centuries, in 1866 the monks were expelled and the site was sold to private owners, one of whom created some of the faux crenellations and towers. In the 20th century, the abbey was restored to a small monastic order. Outside of the cloistered abbey complex is the Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tavarnelle In Val Di Pesa, Abbazia Da Passignano Vista Dalla Strada Di Greve A Nord, 07
Tavarnelle may refer to places in Italy: * Barberino Tavarnelle, a commune ** Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, a part of Barberino Tavarnelle * A.S.D. San Donato Tavarnelle, an Italian association football club See also * Tavernelle (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Di Antonio Filippelli
Filippo di Antonio Filippelli (1460–1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter in Tuscany. He was born in Badia a Passignano, near Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, where he was a pupil of the Florentine painter Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli. His style recalls that of Domenico Ghirlandaio, who also worked at Passignano. Filippelli was active primarily as a fresco painter. He painted many frescoes for churches in the countryside surrounding Florence. These include: *''Saint Peter Martyr, Saints Anthony Abbot and Saint Matthew, and the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian'', dated 1484, at the Pieve di Sant'Appiano near Barberino Val d'Elsa. *''Scenes from the Life of Saint Benedict'', frescoed between 1483 and 1485 in the cloister of the Abbey of Saint Michael at Badia a Passignano. *''Madonna and Child with Four Saints'', a trompe l'oeil altarpiece dated 1492 in church of Sant'Andrea a Papaiano, Poggibonsi. *''The Ascension of Christ'' and ''The Annunciation'', 1502, in the church of Santa Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Monasteries Established In The 11th Century
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' (מָשִׁיחַ) (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It does not have a meaning of 'of Christ' or 'related or pertaining to Christ'. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monasteries In Tuscany
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of Monasticism, monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in Cenobitic monasticism, communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, Church (building), church, or temple, and may also serve as an Oratory (worship), oratory, or in the case of Cenobium, communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, Wiktionary:balneary, balneary and Hospital, infirmary, and outlying Monastic grange, granges. Depending on the location, the monastic order and the occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a wide range of buildings that facilitate self-sufficiency and service to the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atto Of Pistoia
Atto of Pistoia: ''Santo Atão''; c. 1070 – 22 May 1153) was a Catholic bishop and a professed member from the Vallumbrosan Order as well as the Bishop of Pistoia and a noted historiographer. Life Atto was born around 1070. Spanish historian Enrique Flórez thought Atto was from Badajoz in Extremadura, Spain close to the Portuguese border. He went as a pilgrim to Italy, and stopped at Vallombrosa Abbey where he was welcomed by the abbot, Bernardo degli Uberti. By 1100 he was a Vallombrosian monk at Vallombrosa (in Tuscany), and became Abbot in 1105. He became abbott-general around 1120. He wrote lives of John Gualbert and Bernard degli Uberti, bishop of Parma. In 1135 Atto was made Bishop of Pistoia, also in Tuscany. He continued to follow the rule of his order and served as visitor to the monasteries. Together with his Canons he recited the Hours of the Divine Office, as was already customary in the Cloister. As bishop, he managed the delicate relationship with the mun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (, , ; 2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494), professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio, also spelled as Ghirlandajo, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli. Ghirlandaio led a large and efficient workshop that included his brothers Davide Ghirlandaio and Benedetto Ghirlandaio, his brother-in-law Bastiano Mainardi from San Gimignano, and later his son Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. Many apprentices passed through Ghirlandaio's workshop, including the famous Michelangelo. His particular talent lay in his ability to posit depictions of contemporary life and portraits of contemporary people within the context of religious narratives, bringing him great popularity and many large commissions.Toman, Rolf Life and works Early years Ghirlandaio was born Domenico di Tommaso di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Passignano
Domenico Passignano (1559 – 17 May 1638), born Domenico Cresti or Crespi, was an Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Counter-''Maniera'' (Counter-Mannerism) style that emerged in Florence towards the end of the 16th century. Biography Cresti was born in Passignano in Val di Pesa, Passignano, currently a ''frazione'' of Barberino Tavarnelle about 30 km south of Florence, and was educated by the local Vallombrosan monks. He started his works in the stylized Tuscan manner, working with Giovanni Battista Naldini and Girolamo Macchietti. After travelling from Rome to Venice (1581–1589), he came under the influence of Tintoretto's style. He had traveled to Venice as an assistant to Federico Zuccari, who had employed him previously in the completion of Giorgio Vasari's ''The Last Judgement (Vasari and Zuccari), The Last Judgment'' on the ceiling of the dome of Florence Cathedral. He was known to paint with great speed; however, as he used less paint in order to work q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Nicola Nasini
Giuseppe Nicola Nasini (January 25, 1657– July 3, 1736) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Tuscany. Biography Born in Castel del Piano, now in the Province of Grosseto, Giuseppe was the son of the painter Francesco Nasini and was one of the Tuscan pupils in the Medici-patronized Grand-Ducal Academy for the Arts located in Rome and directed from 1673–86, by Ciro Ferri. He was also sponsored in Rome by Agostino Chigi. From 1679 to 1680, Nasini completed over a dozen portraits of Chigi's family; some are copies of paintings by Jacob Ferdinand Voet and Alessandro Mattia da Farnese. On October 15, 1680, his paintings of the ''Judgement of Solomon'' and ''Elias meets a child and widow'' was awarded second prize for design in the first class of painting at the Accademia di San Luca contest. In July 1681, he completed a ''St Peter of Alcantara'' for the church in the Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana, near Montelupo Fiorentino Nasini returned to Florence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Di Stefano Rosselli
Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli (1450 - 1526) was an Italian painter active in his native Florence and the surrounding countryside. Bernardo was probably young teen when, along with his cousin, the more famous Cosimo Rosselli, he entered the workshop of Neri di Bicci in Florence. He was working as an independent artist by 1473, when he painted a fresco of the ''Crucifixion'' (now fragmentary) at they abbey of San Cassiano at Montescolari, near Figline Valdarno. In 1474 he painted two fresco lunettes of ''Adam and Eve'' and ''Cain and Abel'' in the refectory of the Abbey at Passignano in the Val di Pesa. In 1484 he painted a ''Madonna della Cintola with Saints'' for San Piero a Sieve in the Mugello, now in the Princeton University Art Museum. 1489 he painted the ''trompe l'oeil'' architecture and lilies on the walls of the Sala dei Gigli in the Palazzo Vecchio of Florence. An altarpiece of the ''Madonna and Child with Four Saints,'' dated 1497, is over the high altar of San Matteo in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Allori
Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 153522 September 1607) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. Biography In 1540, after the death of his father, Allori was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his 'uncle', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures. Allori supplemented this training with a study trip to Rome, between 1554 and 1560, and with anatomical research which included the dissection of human corpses, provided by the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. In the prime of his career, Allori headed one of the "two most important workshops in Florence in the second half of the 16th century" (the other being headed by Santi di Tito). He served as First Consul of the Accademia del Disegno in 1573, and was made head of the ''Arazzeria Medicea'', Florence's state-owned tapestry workshop, in 1581. Allori also worked, under the guidance of Giorg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Pieroni
Alessandro Pieroni (18 April 1550 in Impruneta – 24 July 1607 in Livorno) was an Italian architect and painter. He was active mainly in a Mannerist style, working for the courts of Grandukes Francesco I and Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Biography Pieroni was also known as the ''Sandrino dall' Impruneta''. He was born in Florence in 1550 where he graduated from the Accademia del Disegno in 1570. He began his career as an assistant to Alessandro Allori. Allori led the team between 1587 and 1591, including Pieroni, Giovanni Bizelli, Giovanni Maria Butteri, and a young Cigoli in decorating the ceilings of the corridors of the Uffizi in Florence. For the chapel of San Giovan Gualberto in the Abbey of San Michele in Passignano, Pieroni painted an altarpiece of ''San Giovan Gualberto pardons the murderers of his brother before the crucifix of San Miniato''. For the visit of Grand-Duke Ferdinand to Pisa in 1588, Pieroni completed, along with the painter Filippo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedetto Veli
Benedetto Velli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Florence, and flourished in the 17th century. He painted an ''Ascension'' for the cathedral at Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi .... References * 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Italian Baroque painters Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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