Pomarancio (other)
Three Italian artists went by the name of Pomarancio or Il Pomarancio (indicating a native of Pomarance): *Antonio Circignani (1570-1630) *Niccolò Circignani (1520-1597) *Cristoforo Roncalli Cristoforo Roncalli (c. 1552–1626) was an Italian mannerist painter. He was one of the three painters known as ''Pomarancio'' or ''Il Pomarancio''. Life Roncalli was born in Pomarance, a town near Volterra. His training occurred in ...

Pomarance
Pomarance is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about 60 km southeast of Pisa. Pomarance borders the following municipalities: Casole d'Elsa, Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina, Montecatini Val di Cecina, Monterotondo Marittimo, Monteverdi Marittimo, Radicondoli, Volterra. Pomarance was the hometown of three painters called Pomarancio after it. From 1968 to 1992 there was at San Dalmazio the static inverter plant of HVDC Italy–Corsica–Sardinia The HVDC Italy–Corsica–Sardinia (also called SACOI; Sardinia–Corsica–Italy) is an HVDC interconnection used for the exchange of electric energy between the Italian mainland, Corsica and Sardinia. It is unusual, having more than two conver .... Today, there is a solar park. References External links Official website {{Pisa-geo-stub ...
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Antonio Circignani
Antonio Circignani (1560–1620) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance ( Mannerism) period and early Baroque. Born in Pomarance, he is known also as Antonio ''Pomarancio''. He was the son of the painter Niccolò Circignani, and with his father, who died in 1588, he worked in Rome. He was featured in the ''Vite'' published by Giovanni Baglione. One of his most famous paintings, Wedding of the Virgin, is found in the Saint Mary of Angels Basilica in Assisi, Italy. Works Other works include a ''Four Evangelists'' (''Quattro Evengalisti''), in Museo di San Francesco, San Marino; and ''Trinity'', in Chiesa della Santissima Trinità, Foiano della Chiana Foiano della Chiana is a small agricultural town in eastern Tuscany, in the province of Arezzo, between the cities of Sinalunga and Cortona. It is well known for its annual carnival. History Foiano's name, according to a legend, derives from the .... Gallery Papa Aniceto.jpg, Martyrdom of Pope Anicetus, frescoes at Chap ...
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Niccolò Circignani
Niccolò Circignani (c. 1517/1524 – after 1596) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. Biography Born in Pomarance, he is one of three Italian painters called Pomarancio. His first works are documented from the 1560s, where he painted frescos on the Old Testament stories for the Vatican Belvedere, where he may have worked alongside Santi di Tito and Giovanni de' Vecchi. He also completed altarpieces for Orvieto (1570), Umbertide (1572), Città di Castello (1573–1577) as well as Città della Pieve. He worked at Orvieto Cathedral with Hendrick van den Broeck, a brother of the sculptor Willem van den Broecke and a relative of the painter Chrispijn van den Broeck. He painted frescoes (1568) in the church of the ''Maestà delle Volte'' in Perugia, the ''Resurrection'' (1569 in Panicale) and an ''Annunciation'' (1577, now in the Pinacoteca Comunale, Città di Castello). He painted frescoes (starting 1574) on mythologic themes including a ''Ju ...
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