Basilica Of San Martino
The Basilica of San Martino is a church in piazza Italia at the junction of via Fantoni and via Roma in the historic centre of the north Italian town of Alzano Lombardo. Dedicated to Martin of Tours, it was promoted to the status of a minor basilica in 1922 by Pope Pius XI. Adjoining it is the San Martino Museum of Religious Art, named after the basilica. History It is first recorded in 1023, when it occupied a much smaller buildings. Several others were built over it over the centuries, including the much larger 15th century version with a stone campanile, of which only the campanile survives. Early in the 17th century the generous bequest of 1,700 Italian scudo, scudi from Bernardino Fugazza, a citizen of the town, allowed the chancel to be rebuilt. At the same time the paintings ''The Miracle of St Martin'' and ''Saint Martin in his Cathedra'' were commissioned from Gian Paolo Cavagna, as well as ''St Martin and the Poor Man'' on the counter-facade. The present structure als ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rocco Di Montpellier
Rocco or Rocko is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: First name * Rocco Baldelli (born 1981), American Major League Baseball player and manager of the Minnesota Twins * Rocco Botte (born 1983), American actor and filmmaker * Rocco Buttiglione (born 1948), Italian politician * Rocco Chinnici (1925-1983), Italian magistrate killed by the Mafia * Rocco "Rocky" Colavito (born 1933), American retired Major League Baseball player * Rocco DiSpirito (born 1966), American celebrity chef and reality show actor * Rocco Fischetti (1903-1964), American mobster * Sir Rocco Forte (born 1945), British businessman * Rocco Granata (born 16 August 1938), Italian-Belgian singer, songwriter, and accordionist * Rocco Grimaldi (born 8 February 1993), American ice hockey player * Rocco Landesman (born 1947), Broadway producer * Rocco Marchegiano (1923-1969), better known as Rocky Marciano, American heavyweight boxer * Rocco Mediate (born 1962), American golfer * Rocco ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andrea Appiani
Andrea Appiani (31 May 17548 November 1817) was an Italian neoclassical painter. Life Born in Milan, it had been intended that he follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Carlo Maria Giudici (1723β1804) where he received instruction in drawing, copying mainly from sculpture and prints. From there, he then joined the class of the fresco painter Antonio de' Giorgi, which was held at the Ambrosiana picture gallery in Milan. At the same time, he also frequented the studio of Martin Knoller, where his knowledge of painting in oils was deepened. Also, he studied anatomy at the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan with the sculptor Gaetano Monti. Appiani's interest in aesthetic issues was stimulated by the classical poet Giuseppe Parini, whom he drew in two fine pencil portraits. In 1776 he entered the Brera Academy of Fine Arts to follow the painting courses of Giulio Traballesi, receiving a mastery of the fresco technique. Among ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giovan Battista Dell'Era
Giovan Battista Dell'Era (1766 in Treviglio β 1798 in Florence)Caini quotes dates as 1757-1809 was an Italian painter. He was the son of a brazier, but his predilection for art induced him to go to Bergamo and become a pupil of Francesco DagiΓΉ, called Capella. In 1785 he went to Rome, and there befriended Angelica Kauffman, with whom he painted several pictures. For the Empress Catharine of Russia, he copied seven of the best masterpieces in the galleries of Rome. He painted the theater curtain (sipario) for the Theater at Arezzo Arezzo ( , , ) , also ; ett, ππππππ, Aritim. is a city and ''comune'' in Italy and the capital of the province of the same name located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about southeast of Florence at an elevation of above sea level. .... He died at Florence in 1798. His best work is the ''Esther before Ahasuerus'' for the basilica of San Martino in Alzano Maggiore, near Bergamo. His son Raffaele who was also training as an artist die ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giuseppe Diotti
Giuseppe Diotti (1 March 1779 β 30 January 1846) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic style. Biography He was born in Casalmaggiore. His full name was Francesco Giuseppe Antonio Diotti. He initially was apprenticed in his hometown to Paolo Araldi. As a teenager, until 1796, he attended the Academy at Parma and was there instructed by Carlo Calami. After a few years back at Casalmaggiore, he gained stipends to allow him to travel to Rome, where he was strongly influenced by the academic styles of both Gaspare Landi and Vincenzo Camuccini. He painted in fresco as well as in oil, distinguishing himself as a painter of historical subjects. From 1806 to 1809, he painted, among other topics, the ''Rest in Egypt'', a ''Deposition'', a ''Moses with Tablets'', an ''Adoration by Shepherds'', and ''Moses and the Bronze Serpent''. He then returned to Milan, and through his friendship with Andrea Appiani, he became a professor in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. He received many sub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giovanni Carnovali
Giovanni Carnovali (29 September 1804 – 5 July 1873), known as Il Piccio ('the little one'), was an Italian painter. Biography Carnovali was born in Montegrino Valtravaglia (Varese). In 1815, at the age of just 11, he was admitted to the Carrara Academy in Bergamo under the guidance of the director Giuseppe Diotti, who immediately recognised his young pupil's natural talent. The artist soon began to break away from the strict Neoclassicism of his academic training and return to the figurative tradition of the 16th and 17th century, which he interpreted with great expressive freedom, especially in portrait painting. His debut at the exhibition of the Carrara Academy and his first major public commission for a work on a religious subject came in 1826. After the first short trips for study purposes, made on foot in the second half of the 1820s, he travelled as far as Rome in 1831 and stopped in Parma on the way back. Carnovali's pupils included Tranquillo Cremona. There ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Francesco Capella
Francesco Capella (1714β1784), called Il Capella and Francesco Dagiu, was a scholar of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. He was born in Venice, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical .... He painted history, and was chiefly employed for the churches at Bergamo, and by the state. One of his best pictures is 'St. George and the Dragon,' in the church of San Bonate. References * 1714 births 1784 deaths Painters from Venice 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giambettino Cignaroli
Giambettino Cignaroli (Verona, July 4, 1706 – Verona, December 1, 1770) was an Italian painter of the Rococo and early Neoclassic period. Biography He was a pupil of Santo Prunato and Antonio Balestra and active mostly in the area of the Veneto. He became the director of the academy of painting and sculpture of Verona in December 1764. The Academy was subsequently known as ''Accademia Cignaroli''. Among his many pupils were Maria Suppioti Ceroni, Giovanni Battista Lorenzi, Saverio Dalla Rosa, Domenico Mondini, Domenico Pedarzoli, and Christopher Unterberger. His brother Giovanni Domenico Cignaroli was also a painter. For the Austrian governor of Lombardy and a collector of antiquities, Count Karl von Firmian, Cignaroli painted two canvases on Greco-Roman episodes, a thematic preferred by Neoclassic painters: ''Death of Cato'' (1759) and ''Death of Socrates''. Giambettino was born into a family of artists, and this tradition continued after his death with his children. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 β April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Biography Piazzetta was born in Venice, the son of a sculptor Giacomo Piazzetta, from whom he had early training in wood carving. Starting in 1697 he studied with the painter Antonio Molinari. By Piazzetta's account, he studied under Giuseppe Maria Crespi while living in Bologna in 1703β05, although there is no record by Crespi of formal tutelage. Thanks to Crespi, Carlo Cignani's influence reached Piazzetta. Piazzetta did find inspiration in Crespi's art, in which the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio was transformed into an idiom of graceful charm in his pictures of common folk. He was also greatly impressed by the altarpieces created by another Bolognese painter of a half-century earlier, Guercino. Around 1710, he returned to Venice. There he won recognition a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Basilica Di San Martino Alzano Ldo Pulpito 02
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building gave its name to the architectural form of the basilica. Originally, a basilica was an ancient Roman public building, where courts were held, as well as serving other official and public functions. Basilicas are typically rectangular buildings with a central nave flanked by two or more longitudinal aisles, with the roof at two levels, being higher in the centre over the nave to admit a clerestory and lower over the side-aisles. An apse at one end, or less frequently at both ends or on the side, usually contained the raised tribunal occupied by the Roman magistrates. The basilica was centrally located in every Roman town, usually adjacent to the forum and often opposite a temple in imperial-era forums. Basilicas were also built in private residences and i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andrea Fantoni
Andrea Fantoni (1659β1734) was an Italian sculptor and woodcarver of the late- Baroque period, active in the region near Bergamo. He was born in Rovetta in 1659, and he died in Bergamo in 1734. He trained with his family of artisans as well as the noted wood carver Pietro Ramus (1639β1682), and then traveled to Parma to work in the Palazzo Ducale. He returned to Rovetta in 1679. His studio produced a variety of works, including statues, reliefs, and wood carving. He is best known for his wooden confessional from the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, and the Duomo of St. Alessandro in Brescia, as well as the pulpit in the Basilica di San Martino at Alzano Lombardo. There are also some altar at a parish churches in the valle Camonica near Cerveno and Angolo Terme. In Clusone, in the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta are a number of sculptures. He also has works in the Ognissanti church in Rovetta Rovetta ( Bergamasque: or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sacra Famiglia
Sacra may refer to : * ''Bibliotheca Sacra'', the theological journal published by Dallas Theological Seminary * ''Harmonia Sacra'', a Mennonite shape note hymn and tune book * Isola Sacra, an island in the Lazio region of Italy south of Rome * Nomina sacra, the tradition of abbreviated writing of titles in early Greek language Holy Scripture * Sacra (ancient Rome), transactions related to the worship of the gods * ''Sacra conversazione'', a depiction of the Madonna with infant Jesus amidst a group of saints * Sacra Corona Unita, a Mafia-like criminal organization from Apulia * Sacra di San Michele, a religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano * ''Sacra jam splendent'', the opening words of the Roman Catholic hymn for Matins * Via Sacra, the main street of ancient Rome See also * Sacrum (other) Sacrum is the neuter form of the Latin adjective ''sacer'', meaning "holy" or "sacred". It is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine and at the upper and back part of the pe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |