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Bernardino Brozzi
Bernardino Brozzi (1555–1617) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance period. He was a pupil of Benedetto Nucci Benedetto Nucci (1515–1587) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerism period. Biography He was born in Cagli. He was a pupil of Pietro Paolo Baldinacci in Gubbio, in the Church State, today in Umbria. Benedetto married .... He was active in Gubbio, where he painted for the churches of the Battilani, San Giuliano, Sant'Agostino, and San Pietro. He died from a fall from scaffolding. by Oderigi Lucarelli, Stab. Tipografia Literaria S. Lapi, (1888), Citta di Castello, page 448. References 1555 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian People
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Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas and achievements of classical antiquity. It occurred after the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages and was associated with great social change. In addition to the standard periodization, proponents of a "long Renaissance" may put its beginning in the 14th century and its end in the 17th century. The traditional view focuses more on the early modern aspects of the Renaissance and argues that it was a break from the past, but many historians today focus more on its medieval aspects and argue that it was an extension of the Middle Ages. However, the beginnings of the period – the early Renaissance of the 15th century and the Italian Proto-Renaissance from around 1250 or 1300 – overlap considerably with the Late Middle Ages, conventionally da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedetto Nucci
Benedetto Nucci (1515–1587) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerism period. Biography He was born in Cagli. He was a pupil of Pietro Paolo Baldinacci in Gubbio, in the Church State, today in Umbria. Benedetto married his master's daughter, Orsolina, in 1549. He did not train with Raffaellino dal Colle, as reported, but was highly influenced by Raphael. He painted several works, mainly for religious institutions in northern Umbria. Among them, a ''Madonna and Child with Saints'' (1570) for the Cathedral in Gubbio, and a triptych depicting the Madonna and Child with Saint Anne, Saint Peter and Saint John the Baptist (''Trittico di Baccaresca'', ca. 1565, Gubbio, Museo Diocesano). The latter work was commissioned by Gabriele, Filippo and Antonio Gabrielli for the church in their castle at Baccaresca, near Gubbio. Among his pupils were his son (or brother) Virgilio (trained also in Rome with Daniele da Volterra, and died in Gubbio in 1621); Mario Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gubbio
Gubbio () is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines. History The city's origins are very ancient. The hills above the town were already occupied in the Bronze Age. As ''Ikuvium'', it was an important town of the Umbri in pre-Roman times, made famous for the discovery there in 1444 of the Iguvine Tablets, a set of bronze tablets that together constitute the largest surviving text in the Umbrian language. After the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC – it kept its name as ''Iguvium'' – the city remained important, as attested by its Roman theatre, the second-largest surviving in the world. Gubbio became very powerful in the beginning of the Middle Ages. The town sent 1000 knights to fight in the First Crusade under the lead of Girolamo Gabrielli, and according to an undocumented local tradition, they were the first to penetrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sant'Agostino, Gubbio
Sant'Agostino is a Gothic- Romanesque style Roman Catholic church in Gubbio, region of Umbria, Italy. A church at the site was built in the second half of the 13th century. Among the works inside are Tourism entry. *''Jesus and the Samaritan'' (1580), by (first chapel on left) *''Madonna del Soccorso'', 15th century (5th chapel on left) *''Madonna di Grazia'', fresco attributed to (3rd chapel right) *''Baptism of St Augustine'' (1594), di |
San Pietro, Gubbio
San Pietro is an ancient Roman Catholic church and former monastery located on piazza San Pietro in central Gubbio, region of Umbria, in Italy. The church which displays architectural elements from many centuries, from Romanesque to the Renaissance, as well as housing prominent artworks; the monastery now houses the civic Biblioteca Comunale Sperelliana. History Some traditions hold that the church at this site was present from the 8th-century, but documents only affirm that by the 11th-century, a prominent church and Benedictine monastery were functioning. In a documents regarding Gubbio from 1163, emperor Barbarossa mentions an ''Offredo'', the Ghibelline abbot of the monastery of St Peter. The monastery was initially linked to the Abbey at Monte Cassino, and by the 12th-century appeared to be the second largest church in town. In 1521, pope Leo X expelled the Benedictines and replaced them with the monks from the Olivetan ''monastery of San Benedetto fuori della mur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
