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Desiderio
Desiderio is both a surname and a given name in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (Desidério), derived from the Latin Desiderius. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Monsù Desiderio (1593–1620), French painter *Reginald B. Desiderio (1918–1950), soldier in the United States Army **Desiderio Army Airfield, Pyeongtaek, South Korea, named after Reginald B. Desiderio * Robert Desiderio (born 1951), American actor *Vincent Desiderio (born 1955), American realist painter Given name: * Desiderio Costa (born 1934), Angolan politician * Desiderio da Settignano (c.1430–1464), Italian sculptor * Desi Arnaz (1917–1986), Cuban-born American entertainer Film * ''Desire'' (1946 Italian film), a 1946 film known by this title in Italian See also *Desiderius (given name) * Didier (other) *Dizier Saint-Dizier () is a subprefecture Of the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France. It has a population of 23,382 (2018 figure) and is a subprefecture of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desiderio Da Settignano
Desiderio da Settignano, real name Desiderio de Bartolomeo di Francesco detto Ferro ( 1428 or 1430 – 1464) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor active in north Italy. Biography He came from a family of stone carvers and stonemasons in Settignano, near Florence. Although his work shows the influence of Donatello, specifically in his use of low reliefs, it is most likely that he received his training in the large Florentine workshop run by Bernardo and Antonio Rossellino. Desiderio matriculated into the Arte dei Maestri di Pietra e Legname, Florence's guild of Stone and Woodworkers, in 1453 and shortly thereafter already was supplying cherub head medallions for the frieze running across the front of the Pazzi Chapel in the second cloisteryard of the Basilica of Santa Croce. It is rather surprising that he would have received such an important commission as the monumental tomb of Carlo Marsuppini so early in his career. Apparently, his design capabilities and sensitivity to the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Desiderio
Robert Desiderio (born September 9, 1951) is an American actor best known for his roles on television. Life and career Desiderio was born in The Bronx, the son of Mary (née Demattia) and Anthony J. Desiderio. He and actress Judith Light married in 1985. They have no children. Desiderio first came to prominence in soap operas, appearing in daytime dramas such as ''Search for Tomorrow'' (1979–80), ''Ryan's Hope'' (1982) and ''One Life to Live'' (1982–83). In 1986–1987, he starred in the short-lived ABC primetime drama series '' Heart of the City''. From 1988 to 1989 he had the recurring role of Ted Melcher in the CBS primetime soap opera, ''Knots Landing''. Desiderio also had recurring roles on ''MacGruder and Loud'', ''Cheers'' and ''The Sopranos'', and guest-starred in ''The A-Team'', ''Remington Steele'', ''The Fall Guy'', '' Matlock'', ''Family Ties'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', ''Murphy Brown'' and ''Ugly Betty''. He appeared in a number of made for television movies, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Desiderio
Vincent Desiderio (born 1955) is an American realist painter. In 2005 he was on the teaching staff at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; he is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art. Biography Desiderio was born in 1955, in Pennsylvania. He studied at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania; at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. In 1984 he joined the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City. Vincent Desiderio is the father of four children, Sam, Oscar, Ian, and Lilly, from his first wife, Gale. He is also the stepfather of two children, Azure and Blaze, from his second wife, Roxanne. Desiderio's eldest son, Sam, was born with Hydrocephalus in 1986. He suffered a stroke as a young child, further disabling him and serving as the inspiration for much of Vincent's work thereafter. His work was shown at the Marlborough Gallery in New York in 2004, and is held by the Pennsylvan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desiderio Costa
Desiderio is both a surname and a given name in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (Desidério), derived from the Latin Desiderius. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Monsù Desiderio (1593–1620), French painter *Reginald B. Desiderio (1918–1950), soldier in the United States Army **Desiderio Army Airfield, Pyeongtaek, South Korea, named after Reginald B. Desiderio *Robert Desiderio (born 1951), American actor *Vincent Desiderio (born 1955), American realist painter Given name: *Desiderio Costa (born 1934), Angolan politician *Desiderio da Settignano (c.1430–1464), Italian sculptor *Desi Arnaz (1917–1986), Cuban-born American entertainer Film * ''Desire'' (1946 Italian film), a 1946 film known by this title in Italian See also *Desiderius (given name) Desiderius is a Latin given name, related to ''desiderium'' - which can be translated as "ardent desire" or "the longed-for". Various other forms include Desiderio in Italian, Desiderio or Desi in Spanish, Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desi Arnaz
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, and film and television producer. He played Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom ''I Love Lucy'', in which he co-starred with his then-wife Lucille Ball. Arnaz and Ball are credited as the innovators of the Broadcast syndication, syndicated rerun, which they pioneered with the ''I Love Lucy'' series. Arnaz and Lucille Ball co-founded and ran the television production company called Desilu Productions, originally to market ''I Love Lucy'' to television networks. After ''I Love Lucy'' ended, Arnaz went on to produce several other television series, at first with Desilu Productions, and later independently, including ''The Ann Sothern Show'' and ''The Untouchables (1959 TV series), The Untouchables''. He was also the bandleader of his Latin group, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. He was known for playing conga drums and popularized the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desiderius (given Name)
Desiderius is a Latin given name, related to ''desiderium'' - which can be translated as "ardent desire" or "the longed-for". Various other forms include Desiderio in Italian, Desiderio or Desi in Spanish, Desidério in Portuguese, Didier in French and Dezső in Hungarian. ''Desiderius'' may refer to: * Desiderius (died c. 786), the last king of the Lombard Kingdom of northern Italy * Desiderius, Abbot of Monte Cassino (c. 1026–1087), successor of Pope Gregory VII * Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), Dutch humanist and theologian * Desiderius Hampel (1895-1981), Waffen-SS general * Desiderius of Aquitaine (died 587), Gallo-Roman dux in the Kingdom of the Franks * Desiderius Wein (1873-1944), Hungarian doctor and gymnast Saints * Desiderius (lector), (died c. 303) *Desiderius of Auxerre, (died 621), bishop of Auxerre * Desiderius of Cahors (c. 580–655), Merovingian royal official * Desiderius of Fontenelle (died c. 700), Frankish saint *Desiderius of Vienne Desid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsù Desiderio
Monsù Desiderio is the name formerly given to an artist believed to have painted architectural scenes in a distinctive style in Naples in the early seventeenth century. The term ''monsù'', a corruption of the French ''monsieur'', was often used by Neapolitan historians to denote a painter of foreign origin. In the mid-twentieth century, art historians identified the works previously attributed to "Desiderio" as being by at least three different painters: François de Nomé and Didier Barra, both originally from Metz, and a third artist, whose name is unknown. Nomé's works were described by Rudolf Wittkower Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the Unite ... as "bizarre and ghostlike paintings of architecture, often crumbling and fantastic". References French Baroque pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desiderio Army Airfield
Camp Humphreys ( ko, 캠프 험프리스), also known as United States Army Garrison-Humphreys (USAG-H), is a United States Army garrison located near Anjeong-ri and Pyeongtaek metropolitan areas in South Korea. Camp Humphreys is home to Desiderio Army Airfield, the busiest U.S. Army airfield in Asia, with an runway. In addition to the airfield, there are several U.S. Army direct support, transportation, and tactical units located there, including the Combat Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. The garrison has an area of and cost US$11 billion. Camp Humphreys is the largest U.S. overseas military base, housing some 500 buildings and amenities. In 2004, an agreement was reached between the United States and South Korean governments to move all U.S. forces to garrisons south of the Han River and relocate the United States Forces Korea and United Nations Command Headquarters to Camp Humphreys. Those movements were completed in 2018, and transformed Camp Humphreys into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desire (1946 Italian Film)
''Desire'' (Italian: ''Desiderio'') is a 1946 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and Roberto Rossellini and starring Massimo Girotti, Elli Parvo and Carlo Ninchi. Plot Paola, daughter of a railwayman, leaves her home in Abruzzo to go to Rome, where she finds work with a dressmaker. It does not last, and she drifts into high-end prostitution. Shocked one morning by seeing the corpse of a girl who had thrown herself from a building, she is comforted by Giovanni, a kindly older man whose business is breeding flowers. Contrasting the mess of her own life with the simple purity of his, she resolves to return to the family home and see her sister Anna, whose wedding she failed to attend. Giovanni will follow later and ask her father for her hand. While Anna is glad to see her and her mother accepts her back, her father refuses to acknowledge her existence and Nando, her sister's husband, regards her as fair game. She is also pestered by Riccardo, now married, who had seduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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