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Galleria Di Palazzo Degli Alberti
Palazzo degli Alberti (local: ''Casone degli Alberti'') is a historical building in the center of Prato, Tuscany, central Italy (2, Via Degli Alberti). It was the seat of Cassa di Risparmio di Prato (the saving bank of Prato, Cariprato, now part of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza) and was home to the former's large art collection. In 2013 it was reported that Banca Popolare di Vicenza moved all the collection to Vicenza after liquidated Cariprato. The former owner of Cariprato, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Prato, continued to use the building as headquarter. History The palace originated in the 13th century, as testified by traces of loggiati and openings (later closed) in its façade, dating from that period and made of ''pietra alberese'', a kind of Tuscan limestone. The current appearance of the façade is from later restorations, performed in the late 15th-early 16th centuries. Features from this period include the portal, the windows and the two decorative frames. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prato
Prato ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato. The city lies in the north east of Tuscany, at the foot of Monte Retaia, elevation , the last peak in the Calvana chain. With more than 200,000 inhabitants, Prato is Tuscany's second largest city (after Florence) and the third largest in Central Italy (after Rome and Florence). Historically, Prato's economy has been based on the textile industry and its district is the largest in Europe. The textile district of Prato is made up of about 7000 fashion companies, obtaining around 2 billion euros from exports. The renowned Datini archives are a significant collection of late medieval documents concerning economic and trade history, produced between 1363 and 1410. The city boasts important historical and artistic attractions, with a cultural span that started with the Etruscans and then expanded in the Middle Ages and reached its peak with the Renaissance, when artists such as Donatell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Vanni
Biography Giovanni Battista Vanni was born in either Pisa or Florence around 1599; he studied successively under Jacopo da Empoli, Aurelio Lomi, and Matteo Rosselli, and then became a disciple of Cristofano Allori. He is better known as an engraver than as a painter. From 1624 to 1632, he lived in Rome, then returning to Florence after visiting Venice. In 1642, he etched a series of fifteen plates from Antonio Allegri, Correggio's frescoes from the cupola of Parma Cathedral which depict the Assumption of the Virgin (1526–30). He also engraved Paolo Veronese's ''Marriage at Cana''. His works include a ''Triumph of David'', now in the palace of the Alberti in Prato, an ''Annunciation'' for the church of San Francesco di Paola, Florence, San Francesco di Paola in Florence and a ''Saint Sebastian Healed at the Feet of the Virgin'' for the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome. He frescoed a ''Meal in the house of the Pharisee'' for a refectory attached to the Church of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Lippi
Filippo Lippi ( – 8 October 1469), also known as Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento (15th century) and a Carmelite Priest. Biography Lippi was born in Florence in 1406 to Tommaso, a butcher, and his wife. He was orphaned when he was two years old and sent to live with his aunt Mona Lapaccia. Because she was too poor to rear him, she placed him in the neighboring Carmelite convent when he was eight years old. There, he started his education. In 1420 he was admitted to the community of Carmelite friars of the Priory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Florence, taking religious vows in the Order the following year, at the age of sixteen. He was ordained as a priest in approximately 1425 and remained in residence of that priory until 1432. Giorgio Vasari, the first art historian of the Renaissance, writes that Lippi was inspired to become a painter by watching Masaccio at work in the Carmine church. Lippi's early work, notably the Tarquinia Madonna (Galle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosimo Salvestrini
Cosimo is the Italian form of the Greek name ''Kosmas'' (latinised as ''Cosmas''). Cosimo may refer to: Characters * Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, hero of Italo Calvino's 1957 novel ''The Baron in the Trees'' Given name Medici family * Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464), ruler of Florence, Italy * Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (other), any of several people of the same name * Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519–1574) * Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590–1621) * Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723) Other people * Cosimo Antonelli (1925–2014), Italian water polo player * Cosimo Bartoli (1503–1572), Italian diplomat and humanist * Cosimo Boscaglia (c.1550–1621), Italian professor of philosophy * Cosimo Caliandro (1982–2011), Italian middle distance runner * Cosimo Cavallaro (born 1961), Italian-Canadian artist * Cosimo Commisso (soccer), Canadian soccer player * Cosimo Daddi (died 1630), Italian painter * Cosimo F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Martinelli
Giovanni Martinelli (22 October 1885 – 2 February 1969) was an Italian operatic tenor. He was associated with the Italian lyric-dramatic repertory, although he performed French operatic roles to great acclaim as well. Martinelli was one of the most famous tenors of the 20th century, enjoying a long career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and appearing at other major international theatres. Biography and career Martinelli was born 22 October 1885 in Montagnana, Province of Padua, Veneto in the Kingdom of Italy. After service as a clarinetist in a military band, he studied with Giuseppe Mandolini in Milan, and made his first operatic role in 1908 as the messenger in ''Aida''. On 29 December 1910, Martinelli made his professional debut at the Teatro dal Verme in ''Ernani''. On 12 June 1911, Martinelli debuted in Rome as Dick Johnson in ''La fanciulla del West''; he would continue singing in that role elsewhere in Italy including La Scala in 1912. Martinelli made h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Conti (painter)
Francesco Conti (1681–1760) was an Italian painter. Biography Conti was born in Florence, Italy, and spent some time studying art in Rome. He specialized in painting religious-themed works. He studied primarily under Giovanni Maria Morandi and Carlo Maratta. In 1738 he painted one of his most renowned works ''Madonna and Child with St. Sylvester the Pope, St. Paul and St. Catherine of Alexandria''. He continued to paint up until his death in 1760. Among his pupils was Anna Bacherini Piattoli. in the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. Gallery [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livio Mehus
Lieven Mehus or Livio Mehus (1630, in Oudenaarde – 7 August 1691, in Florence) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque period, who trained and worked in Italy. He was mainly active in Florence where he was court painter of Prince Mattias de' Medici. During his lifetime he enjoyed a high reputation for his allegorical and mythological scenes, landscapes, religious works and portraits.Lieven Mehus at the Life Livio Mehus was born in in Flanders in 1630 as Lieven Mehus. In ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittoria Della Rovere
Vittoria della Rovere (7 February 1622 – 5 March 1694) was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. She had four children with her husband, two of whom would survive infancy: the future Cosimo III, Tuscany's longest-reigning monarch, and Francesco Maria, a prince of the Church. At the death of her grandfather Francesco Maria della Rovere, she inherited the Duchies of Rovere and Montefeltro, which reverted to her second son, Francesco Maria, at her death. She was later entrusted with the care of her three grandchildren. Her marriage brought a wealth of treasures to the House of Medici, which can today be seen in the Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Infancy Vittoria della Rovere was the only child of Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, son of the then incumbent Duke of Urbino, Francesco Maria. Her mother was Claudia de' Medici, a sister of Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duchess of Mantua. As an infant it was expected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justus Sustermans
Justus Sustermans, Joost Sustermans or Suttermans, his given name Italianised to Giusto (Antwerp, 28 September 1597 – Florence, 23 April 1681), was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who is mainly known for his portraits. He also painted history and genre paintings, still lifes and animals.Justus Sustermans at the Sustermans is chiefly noted for his portraits of members of the as he was its |
Pietro Dandini
Pietro Dandini (12 April 1646 – 26 November 1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. Biography He is also called ''Pier Dandini''. He was the son (or nephew) and pupil of the painter Vincenzo Dandini. Pietro's uncle, Cesare Dandini, was a prominent painter in Florence. Vincenzo's sons, Ottaviano and Vincenzo Dandini the younger also became painters. Among his pupils as Valerio Baldassarri of Pescia, Father Alberico Carlini of Vellano, Gaetano Santarelli Giovanna Fratellini, and Giovanni Cinqui. In addition to having training within the family, he traveled to Bologna, Modena, Venice, and Rome to learn about art. Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Bolognese, 1723, page 365. As a painter, Dandini's styles are eclectic, as reflected in his travels, though he has the high-minded graciousness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenzo Dandini
Vincenzo Dandini (1607–1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of his brother, Cesare Dandini in Florence, then he moved to Rome and worked in the studio of Pietro da Cortona. Among his pupils were Giovanni Battista Marmi and Antonio Domenico Gabbiani. His nephew Pietro and his two children, Ottaviano and Vincezo the younger, also worked as painters in his studio. He painted an ''Immaculate Conception'' and other canvases for the church of Ognissanti, Florence. He painted a fresco of the ''Aurora and the Hours'' for the Villa del Poggio Imperiale Villa del Poggio Imperiale (English: Villa of the Imperial Hill) is a predominantly neoclassical former grand ducal villa in Arcetri, just to the south of Florence in Tuscany, Central Italy. Beginning as a villa of the Baroncelli of Florence, .... He painted a canvas on oil of ''Sacrifice of Niobe'' for the Villa La Petraja. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Dandini
Cesare Dandini (1 October 1596– 7 February 1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native city of Florence. Biography He was the older brother of the painter Vincenzo Dandini (1609–1675). His nephew, Pietro was a pupil of Vincenzo, and Pietro's two sons, Ottaviano Dandini and the Jesuit priest Vincenzo also worked as painters in Florence. According to the biographer Baldinucci, Cesare first worked under Francesco Curradi, then Cristofano Allori, and finally Domenico Passignano. He enrolled in 1621 in the Accademia del Disegno. His style has the polish and attention to draughtsmanship and design characteristic of Florentines like Carlo Dolci. Among his pupils were Stefano della Bella, Alessandro Rosi Alessandro Rosi (28 December 1627 in – 19 April 1697 in Florence) was an Italian artist, working during the Baroque period, for the Medicis and other patrons. Biography Rosi trained in the workshops of Jacopo Vignali and Cesar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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