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Modern Art Gallery Sant'Anna
The Modern Art Gallery of Palermo (Italian: Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palermo) is a civic art gallery of Palermo, displaying works from the 19th until the early 20th century, located on Via Sant'Anna #21, adjacent to the church of Sant'Anna la Misericordia in the ancient quarter of the Kalsa of the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The collections were moved to this site, consisting of the former Franciscan convent associated with Sant'Anna and the adjacent Palazzo Bonet. History The Teatro Politeama on Piazza Ruggero Settimo, just north of the central Palermo was completed by the late 19th-century, and to lure more visitors and create a cultural landmark, a painting and sculptor gallery, named after its initial patron, Empedocle Restivo, was installed in 1910 in the second floor foyer featuring mainly local contemporary talent. In 2006, it was decided to move the enlarging collection to a more central space, and the city had available the large former Franciscan convent n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is in the northwest of the island of Sicily, by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as ("flower"). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage. Two ancient Greeks, Greek ancient Greek colonization, colonies were established, known collectively as ; the Carthaginians used this name on their coins after the 5th centuryBC. As , the town became part of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, Empire for over a thousand years. From 831 to 1072 the city was under History of Islam in southern Italy, Arab ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Pasqualino Noto
Lia is a feminine given name. In the Spanish-speaking world, it is accented Lía. In America, the name may be a variant of Leah or Lea. Lia may be a diminutive of various names including Julia, Cecilia, Amelia, Talia, Cornelia, Ophelia, Rosalia / Roselia, Natalia, Aurelia, Adalia / Adelia, Ailia, Apulia, Alia / Aleah. It can also be a surname. People with the given name Lia * Lia (artist), Austrian software artist * Lia (singer), Japanese singer * Lia, member of the Korean group Itzy * Lia Andrea Ramos (born 1981), Filipina model * Lía Bermúdez (1930–2021), Venezuelan sculptor * Francesca Lia Block (born 1962), American fantasy writer * Lia Franca (1912-1988) Italian actress * Lía Borrero (born 1976), Panamanian beauty queen * Lia Boysen (born 1966), Swedish actress * Lia Chang (born 1963), American actress and journalist * Lia Cruz (born 1985), Filipina television host * Lia Dorana (1918–2010), a Dutch actress * Lia Eibenschütz (1899–1985), German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erulo Eroli
Erulo Eroli (August 31, 1854 – 1916) was an Italian painter. He was born in Rome. His initial studies were in the Ospizio di San Michele in Rome under professor Ceccarini. He was able to win awards from his Institute and the Ministry of public education for ''Studio di un testa'' and ''Return to his family of a soldier wounded for his family''. His painting of a ''Bacchante'' was awarded a silver medal at the Society of the Fine Arts in Rome. His works also include a candlelight painting titled ''Un Coro di Fanciulli'' and ''Gloria in Excelsis Ave Maria''. The other painting by Eroli found in the Naval Academy of Livorno Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronou ... is titled ''La Palestro a Lissa'', which had been exhibited at the 1883 Exposition in Rome. The subject was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Vespri Siciliani - Erulo Eroli
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Maria Boglino
Elisa Johanne Rosa Maria Boglino (7 May 1905 – 2002) was a Danish-Italian painter, active in Denmark and Italy. Biography The father was ''Legationssekr.'' Alberto Maioli. Boglino grew up with her divorced mother. Boglino married, and settled in Palermo in 1927.Fiume, Marinella (2006): ''Siciliane: Dizionario Biografico'', E. Romeo, s.693.Elisa Maria Boglino at Kulturarv.dk 'Art Index Denmark' According to a colleague from the years in Sicily Lia Pasqualina Noto (it) during the thirties it seems that Boglino had moved to |
Franz Von Stuck
Franz von Stuck (February 23, 1863 – August 30, 1928), born Franz Stuck, was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect. Stuck was best known for his paintings of ancient mythology, receiving substantial critical acclaim with '' The Sin'' in 1892. In 1906, Stuck was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was henceforth known as Franz Ritter von Stuck. Life and career Born at Tettenweis near Passau, Stuck displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature from an early age. To begin his artistic education he relocated in 1878 to Munich, where he would settle for life. From 1881 to 1885 Stuck attended the Munich Academy. He first became well known by cartoons for ''Fliegende Blätter'', and vignette designs for programmes and book decoration. In 1889 he exhibited his first paintings at the Munich Glass Palace, winning a gold medal for '' The Guardian of Paradise''. In 1892 Stuck co-founded the Munich Secession, and also executed his first sculpture, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Sironi
Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms. Biography He was born in Sassari on the island of Sardinia. His father was an engineer; his maternal grandfather was the architect and sculptor Ignazio Villa.Sironi and Ferrari 2002, p. 159 Sironi spent his childhood in Rome. He embarked on the study of engineering at the University of Rome but quit after a nervous breakdown in 1903, one of many severe depressions that would recur throughout his life. Thereafter he decided to study painting, and began attending the Scuola Libera del Nudo of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. There he met Giacomo Balla, who became "his first real teacher". Sironi returned to Milan in 1905 before traveling to Paris in 1906.Braun Like his friends Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni, he began painting in a Divisionist style unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onofrio Tomaselli
Onofrio is an Italian surname derived from Onuphrius. Notable people with the surname include: *Vincent D'Onofrio Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (; born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his supporting and leading roles in both film and television. He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. His roles include Private Leonar ... * Al Onofrio * Beverly Donofrio * Elizabeth D'Onofrio * Francesco Onofrio Manfredini * Marco Onofrio See also * Sant'Onofrio (other) * San Onofre (other) {{surname Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleardo Terzi
Aleardo Terzi (1870–1943) was an Italian illustrator and artist. Life Terzi was born in Palermo. He died in Castelletto sopra Ticino in 1943. As an illustrator, Terzi was described as bringing Art Nouveau poster design to a world-class level. He produced work throughout his life, notably for the Italian poster company Casa Ricordi. Most of his work was destroyed in the 1960s when the company cleared its warehouses. He worked as an illustrator for a Rome daily called ''La Tribuna Illustrata''. Artelibrary, Retrieved 10 April 2017 He illustrated Italian versions of ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' and ''Gulliver's Travels''. His brother, (1872–1956), was also an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Rutelli
Mario Rutelli (Palermo, Sicily, 4 April 1859 – 1941) was an Italian sculptor. Biography From a native British family which long ago moved from France to Italy (Rudelle at first), Mario's father Giovanni Rutelli was a prominent architect in Palermo. Mario studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo and then in Rome under Giulio Monteverde and Benedetto Civiletti, and Auguste Rodin in Paris. From 1874 through 1897 Giovanni Rutelli's firm, Rutelli and Machi', was responsible for the construction of the monumental Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the 3rd largest lyric theatre in all of Europe. For his first major commission Mario contributed a lion and allegorical group representing ''Lyric Poetry'' flanking the theater's entrance. The corresponding lion representing ''Tragedy'' is the work of Civiletti. Rutelli's likely masterwork is the 1901 ''Fountain of the Naiads'' in Piazza della Repubblica, Rome, which Benito Mussolini called the "exaltation of eternal youth, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippo Rizzo
Pippo is the diminutive of the Italian names Filippo and Giuseppe, and it may refer to: People *Pippo Barzizza (1902–1994), Italian Maestro and composer *Pippo Baudo (born 1936), Italian television presenter *Pippo Caruso (1935–2018), Italian composer, conductor and music arranger *Pippo Civati (born 1975), Italian politician * Pippo Fava (1925–1984), Sicilian writer, investigative journalist, playwright and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia *Pippo Franco (born 1940), Italian actor, comedian, television presenter and singer *Pippo Inzaghi, Italian former football player * Pippo Maniero (born 1972), Italian former football player *Pippo Pollina (born 1963), Italian singer-songwriter *Pippo Pozzato, Italian road racing cyclist *Pippo Psaila (born 1957), former Malta national football team coach and current Director of Sports of the Malta Olympic Committee *Pippo Tesauro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period *Pippo Torri, Lombard far-left politician *Giuseppe Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenzo Ragusa
Vincenzo Ragusa (8 July 1841 – 13 March 1927) was an Italian sculptor who lived in Meiji period Japan from 1876–1882. He introduced European techniques in bronze casting, and new methods of modeling in wood, clay, plaster and wire armatures which exerted a significant role in the development of the modern Japanese sculptural arts. Background In 1876, the Technical Fine Arts School (''Kobu Bijutsu Gakko'', later part of the University of Technology and later the Tokyo Institute of Technology), an art school of painting and sculpture, was founded in Tokyo under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry. This was the first governmental art school founded in Japan. Special emphasis was placed on sculptural art, as the number of applicants was far less than that for painting. With the waning popularity of Buddhism in the early Meiji period, traditional sculptural art had fallen into disfavor, and was surviving in minor arts such as architectural ornament, noh-masks, doll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
