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Chiesa Di San Francesco D'Assisi (Turin)
San Francesco d'Assisi is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on via San Francesco d'Assisi in Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy. The church of San Rocco is on the same street. History A church on this site had been present since the 13th century, putatively erected by St Francis of Assisi himself. Construction of the present church began in 1602. In 1673, the main altar was reconstructed in marble. In 1761, the building was refurbished and a façade and some were added, based on designs by Mario Ludovico Quarini and Bernardo Vittone. Above the entrance portal is a large oval window and an interrupted cornice, with pinnacles on the roofline. The chapel of St Antony of Padua was designed also by Vittone. A further refurbishment occurred in 1863–1865. Rodolfo Morgari retouched the frescoes on the ceiling of the presbytery, and his pupil, Alberto Masoero, repainted the vault of the central nave. The chapel of the Immaculate Conception is richly decorated with marble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies located around the world. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The bishopric of Rome, known as the Holy See, is the central governing authority of the church. The administrative body of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, has its principal offices in Vatican City, a small enclave of the Italian city of Rome, of which the pope is head of state. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Vittone
Parish Church of Grignasco Bernardo Antonio Vittone (19 August 1704 – 19 October 1770) was an Italian architect and writer. He was one of the three most important Baroque architects active in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy; the other two were Filippo Juvarra and Guarino Guarini. The youngest of the three, Vittone was the only one who was born in Piedmont. He achieved a synthesis of the spatial inventiveness of Juvarra and the engineering ingenuity of Guarini, particularly in the design of his churches, the buildings for which he is best known. Life and works Vittone was born in Turin into a mercantile family. He may have been introduced to architecture by his uncle, the architect Gian Giacomo Plantery and might have worked under Juvarra before departing for Rome. In Rome, Vittone won a first prize in the Accademia di San Luca in 1732. His architectural studies in Rome included works by Carlo Fontana and he was elected to the Academy in 1733 just prior to his return to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Churches In Turin
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Giovanni Andrea Casella
Giovanni Andrea Casella (17th century) was a Swiss-Italian painter active in the Baroque period. He was born in Lugano. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome. He was patronized by House of Savoy The House of Savoy ( it, Casa Savoia) was a royal dynasty that was established in 1003 in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, the family grew in power from ruling a small Alpine county north-west of Italy to absolute rule of ... in frescoes for palaces in Turin, and known to be active in 1658. He painted in the Veneria Reale some fables, assisted by Giacomo, his nephew. References * 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters People from Lugano {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccaro, also known as Federico Zuccari (c. 1540/1541August 6, 1609), was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad. Biography Zuccaro was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino (Marche). His documented career as a painter began in 1550, when he moved to Rome to work under Taddeo, his elder brother. He went on to complete decorations for Pius IV, and help complete the fresco decorations at the Villa Farnese at Caprarola. Between 1563 and 1565, he was active in Venice with the Grimani family of Santa Maria Formosa. During his Venetian period, he traveled alongside Palladio in Friuli. He was involved in the following fresco projects: * Decoration of the Casina Pio IV, Rome * Grimani Chapel, San Francesco della Vigna, Venice *Monumental staircase, Palazzo Grimani, Venice * Pucci Chapel in the church of Trinità dei Monti, Rome * San Marcello al Corso, Rome * Cathedral of Orvieto (1570) * Oratorio del Gonfalone, Rome (1573) * ''The La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciscan Order
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Luigi Caraccio
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Giovanni Antonio Molineri
Giovanni Antonio Molineri (1577–1631) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist and early Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ... period. He was born in Savigliano and died prematurely there, due to the plague. Molineri came to Rome at the start of the 17th century, and is documented there till 1615. In Rome, he was in contact with Bartolomeo Manfredi; but no works from this period are known. His work appears influenced by Ludovico Cigoli and Domenico Passignano. A self-portrait (circa 1620) is present in Savigliano. He also painted frescoes (circa 1620–1621) in the chancel of San Pietro in Savigliano. He worked for the Dukes of Savoy and also for Amedeo Dal Pozzo, Marquess of Voghera. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Masoero
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Rodolfo Morgari
Rodolfo Morgari ( Turin, 1827 – Turin 1909) was an Italian painter, primarily of genre and historical scenes. Biography Rodolfo was born to a family of painters. Rodolfo's son was Pietro Morgari (1852-1885). His brother was Paolo Emilio Morgari (1815-1882). Rodolfo's father was Giuseppe Morgari (1788-1847). Paolo Emilio had three children: Luigi (1857-1935) and Beatrice (1858-1936), both painters, and Oddino (1865-1944), a journalist and politician. He studied at the Accademia Albertina at Turin, and was associated with the institution most of his life. He fought in the First War of Italian Independence in 1848. He was a professor of Ornamentation at the Accademia, and part of the Turin Circolo degli Artisti. Among his works: ''Consolatrix afflictorum'' ; ''The Guardian Angel'' and ''Death of Raphael''. In 1884 at Turin, he exhibited ''Episode after 1883 earthquake at Casamicciola'' and ''The Aurora of July 29, 1883''. In 1887 at Venice, he displayed: ''Tre sorelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Ludovico Quarini
Mario Ludovico Quarini (1736 – 1808) was an Italian architect. He was active in the Piedmont, and completed unfinished projects of Bernardo Antonio Vittone. He began his career in the exuberant baroque of Vittone, but moved into more neoclassical styles. He was born in Chieri. He completed (1776) the work of Vittone for the Abbey of Fruttuaria di San Benigno Canavese. He enlarged (1772) the Palazzo Mercadillo in Chieri. He completed the facade (1792) of the church of San Bernardino in Chieri; the belltowers are older. He designed the scenographic church San Giacomo Maggiore of Balangero (1774). He designed an altar for the church of monastery of the Annunziata in Turin, moved to the parish church of San Maurizio Canavese. He designed the Cathedral of Fossano. He contributed to the designs the Salone delle Adunanze (dei due Mappamondi) in the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, which was finally decorated by quadratura painter Giovannino Galliari Giovannino ( Italian for "Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alps, Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Larger Urban Zones, Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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