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Baldassare Castiglione, By Raffaello Sanzio, From C2RMF Retouched
Baldassare is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: * Baldassare Aloisi (1578–1638), Italian history and portrait painter and engraver * Baldassare Bianchi (1612–1679), Italian painter * Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), Italian Renaissance writer * Baldassare Cittadella (1603–1651), Italian Jesuit * Baldassare Croce (1558–1628), Italian painter * Baldassare d'Anna (circa 1560–1600), Italian painter * Baldassare Di Maggio (born 1954), Sicilian Mafioso * Baldassare Donato (circa 1525–1603), Italian composer and singer * Baldassare Ferri (1610–1680), Italian singer * Baldassare Forestiere (1879–1946), Italian-American founder of the Forestiere Underground Gardens * Baldassare Franceschini (1611–1689), Italian Baroque painter * Baldassare Gabbugiani (18th century), Italian engraver * Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), Venetian composer * Baldassare Peruzzi Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481 – 6 January 1536) was an Italian a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Aloisi
Baldassare Aloisi, or Baldassare Galanino (12 October 1578 – 1638), was an Italian history and portrait painter and engraver. He was also known as Il Galanino. Aloisi was born at Bologna, the relative and pupil of Ludovico Carracci. As his compositions were not meeting with sufficient encouragement, he went to Rome, and gave himself up to portrait painting. His pictures have great vigor and clarity of relief. He also made picturesque engravings, but his works in this manner are carried out with a little too much negligence. One of his finest pictures is ''The Visitation'', in the first chapel of the church Santa Maria della Carità in Bologna. He was in Rome, and much employed in painting portraits of the most illustrious persons of his time. For the churches he also painted some pictures, the principal one of which was the great altar-piece representing ''The Coronation of the Virgin'', in the Gesù e Maria. Among his engravings are fifty plates from Raphael's works in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Bianchi
Baldassare Bianchi (1612 in Bologna – 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography He was first a pupil of Giovanni Paderna, but after Paderna's death, he trained with Agostino Mitelli, the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna. Bianchi married Mitelli's daughter. Bianchi became a colleague of Giovanni Giacomo Monti, another Mitelli pupil. This partnership also met with success particularly at Mantua, where they both received regular salaries from the Ducal government. Their figure-painter was Giovanni Battista Caccioli of Budrio, pupil to Domenico Maria Canuti, and a good disciple of Carlo Cignani. With Mitelli, he painted quadratura at Ducal palace of Sassuolo. He was also long employed by the dukes of Modena. He also decorated the theatres of Mantua and Modena. He died at Modena. His daughter, Lucrezia Bianchi, was also a painter. Enrico Haffner Enrico Haffner (August 1640 – 1702) was an Italian painter of quadratura during the Baro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Castiglione
Baldassare Castiglione, Count of Casatico (; 6 December 1478 – 2 February 1529),Dates of birth and death, and cause of the latter, fro, ''Italica'', Rai International online. was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author. Castiglione wrote ''Il Cortegiano'' or ''The Book of the Courtier'', a courtesy book dealing with questions of the etiquette and morality of the courtier. It was very influential in 16th-century European court circles. Biography Castiglione was born in Casatico, near Mantua (Lombardy) into a family of the minor nobility, connected through his mother, Luigia Gonzaga, to the ruling Gonzagas of Mantua. In 1494, at the age of sixteen, Castiglione was sent to Milan, then under the rule of Duke Ludovico Sforza, to begin his humanistic studies at the school of the renowned teacher of Greek and editor of Homer Demetrios Chalkokondyles (Latinized as Demetrius Calcondila), and Georgius Merula. In 1499, Castiglione's father died unex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Cittadella
Baldassare Cittadella (born in 1603 in Lucca, Italy, dead December 3, 1651 at sea outside Goa, India) was a Catholic China missionary belonging to the Society of Jesus. In 1635 he came to Macau, where he was principal for the seminar and especially got the responsibility for newly baptised Chinese. He died during a journey back to Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption .... {{DEFAULTSORT:Cittadella, Baldassare 17th-century Italian Jesuits Roman Catholic missionaries in China 1603 births 1651 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Croce
Baldassare Croce (Bologna, 1558–November 8, 1628) was an Italian painter, active during the late-Mannerist period, active mainly in and around Rome. Biography He trained in Bologna, and moved to Rome by 1581. Known as a prolific academic painter in Rome; he was named director of the Academy of St. Luke. He painted for the Sala Clementina of the Vatican palace, for the Chapel of San Francesco at the Gesù, San Giovanni in Laterano, and San Giacomo degli Spagnoli. He painted six large frescoes along the nave of the church of Santa Susanna, depicting the life of the Susanna from the Old Testament. He worked under Cesare Nebbia and Giovanni Guerra in the decoration of the ''Scala Santa'' in San Giovanni in Laterano. In January 1628, he was named ''Principe'' (Prince) of the Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare D'Anna
Baldassare or Baldasarre d'Anna ( – after 1639) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. upright 2, ''Approval of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity involved in the redemption of slaves'' Santa Maria Formosa Biography Born in Venice to a Flemish family, and trained with Leonardo Corona. The date of his death is uncertain, but he seems to have been alive in 1639. For a number of years he studied under Corona, and on the death of that painter completed several works left unfinished Unfinished may refer to: *Unfinished creative work, a work which a creator either chose not to finish or was prevented from finishing. Music * Symphony No. 8 (Schubert) "Unfinished" * ''Unfinished'' (album), 2011 album by American singer Jor ... by him. His own activity seems to have been confined to the production of pieces for several of the churches and a few private houses in Venice, and the old guide-books and descriptions of the city notice a considerable number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Di Maggio
Baldassare Di Maggio (San Giuseppe Jato, November 19, 1954), also known as Balduccio, was a member of the Mafia, who became a government witness (''pentito'' - repentant). He helped the police to capture the head of Cosa Nostra, Totò Riina, and claimed that Riina respectfully kissed three-time prime minister Giulio Andreotti when they met in 1987. Mafioso Di Maggio was born in San Giuseppe Jato, a town in the province of Palermo and was initiated in 1981 in the local Mafia family, headed by Bernardo Brusca. He was involved in the elimination of Rosario Riccobono and 14 other men of Riccobono's Mafia clan in November 1982 during the Second Mafia War. In 2001, he received an 11 year prison sentence, which took into account his testimonies as government witness. When the ''capo-famiglia'' of San Giuseppe Jato, Bernardo Brusca, a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission went to prison and his son Giovanni Brusca was banished to Linosa, Di Maggio became acting head of the family. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Donato
Baldassare Donato (also Donati) (1525-1530 – June 1603) was an Italian composer and singer of the Venetian school of the late Renaissance. He was ''maestro di cappella'' of the prestigious St. Mark's Basilica at the end of the 16th century, and was an important figure in the development of Italian light secular music, especially the villanella. Life Details of his early life are unavailable; it is not even known where he was born. The first record of Donato is as a singer at St. Mark's in Venice in 1550, and he was given charge of the musical training of the boys there in 1562. When Gioseffo Zarlino took over the post of ''maestro di cappella'' from Cipriano de Rore in 1565, Donato was demoted back to being a singer; conflict between the two men seems to have been a feature of life at St. Mark's, culminating in a climactic fight in 1569, publicly and scandalously, during the Feast of St. Mark. In 1577 Donato took a position at the Scuola Grande di S Rocco, another Veneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Ferri
Baldassare Ferri (9 December 1610 – 10 September 1680) was an Italian ''castrato'' singer. He is said to have possessed "extraordinary endurance of breath, flexibility of voice and depth of emotion". History He was born in Perugia, and at the age of eleven was a chorister to Cardinal Crescenzi, at Orvieto, in whose service he remained until 1655, when the Swedish invasion broke up the court. Four years later the Prince, afterwards Wladislaus IV, of Poland, secured Ferri's services for the Court of Sigismund III, at Warsaw. In 1655 the singer entered the service of Ferdinand III in Vienna. He received many honors from royalty and the nobles of various countries, and was one of the most renowned singers of his time. In 1654 he journeyed to Sweden to sing by request before Queen Christine, his voice even then being famous throughout Europe. He was made a knight of St. Mark of Venice in 1643, sonnet A sonnet is a poetic form that originated in the poetry composed at the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Forestiere
Baldassare is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: * Baldassare Aloisi (1578–1638), Italian history and portrait painter and engraver * Baldassare Bianchi (1612–1679), Italian painter * Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), Italian Renaissance writer * Baldassare Cittadella (1603–1651), Italian Jesuit * Baldassare Croce (1558–1628), Italian painter * Baldassare d'Anna (circa 1560–1600), Italian painter * Baldassare Di Maggio (born 1954), Sicilian Mafioso * Baldassare Donato (circa 1525–1603), Italian composer and singer * Baldassare Ferri (1610–1680), Italian singer * Baldassare Forestiere (1879–1946), Italian-American founder of the Forestiere Underground Gardens * Baldassare Franceschini (1611–1689), Italian Baroque painter * Baldassare Gabbugiani (18th century), Italian engraver * Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), Venetian composer * Baldassare Peruzzi Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481 – 6 January 1536) was an Italian a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Franceschini
Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano after his birth place Volterra and, to distinguish him from Ricciarelli, Il Volterrano Giuniore (16116 January 1689) was an Italian late Baroque painter and draughtsman active principally around Florence and Volterra.Baldassare Franceschini, il Volterrano at the British Museum He was mainly known for his frescoes, altarpieces and easel paintings for churches and palaces in Florence, Volterra and Rome. His subject matter was diverse and included portraits, biblical and mythological scenes, history paintings and allegorical compositions. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassare Gabbugiani
Baldassare Gabbugiani was an Italian engraver. He executed some of the plates for the ''Museo Fiorentino'', published at Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ... between the years 1747 and 1766. References Artists from Florence Italian engravers Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Italy-engraver-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
