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Palazzo Spalletti-Trivelli
Palazzo Spalletti-Trivelli (formerly Guicciardi) is a palace located at Via Emilia A San Pietro #2, corner with Via San Nicolò, in the center of the city of Reggio Emilia, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. The building now belongs to the Credito Emiliano (Credem) bank, and owns the art collection now in the palace. History The building was erected atop ancient Roman ruins, still visible in the basement. A large house or palace was owned by the Bosi Family until 1685. It was rebuilt in the 1700s under the patronage of the new owner Count Guicciardi using designs by the architect Giovanni Maria Ferraroni, and refurbished in the early 1800s in a Neoclassical style by Pietro Marchelli, when the palace was acquired by the Spalletti-Trivelli family, who also owned the adjacent building. A salon of the piano nobile has a ceiling painting depicting ''Apollo with the Court of the Hours'' by Prospero Minghetti, and a ball room with ''trompe-l'œil'' colonnades and curtains painted by Vin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggio Emilia
Reggio nell'Emilia ( egl, Rèz; la, Regium Lepidi), usually referred to as Reggio Emilia, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, and known until 1861 as Reggio di Lombardia, is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 171,944 inhabitants and is the main ''comune'' (municipality) of the Province of Reggio Emilia. The inhabitants of Reggio nell'Emilia are called ''Reggiani'', while the inhabitants of Reggio di Calabria, in the southwest of the country, are called ''Reggini''. The old town has a hexagonal form, which derives from the ancient walls, and the main buildings are from the 16th–17th centuries. The commune's territory lies entirely on a plain, crossed by the Crostolo stream. History Ancient and early Middle Ages Reggio began as a historical site with the construction by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus of the Via Aemilia, leading from Piacenza to Rimini (187 BC). Reggio became a judicial administration centre, with a forum called at first ''Regiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvator Mundi
, Latin for Saviour of the World, is a subject in iconography depicting Christ with his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding an orb (frequently surmounted by a cross), known as a . The latter symbolizes the Earth, and the whole composition has strong eschatological undertones. Background The theme was made popular by Northern painters such as Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Albrecht Dürer. There are also several versions of the theme attributed to Titian, notably the one in the Hermitage Museum. One painting of the subject, simply titled , was attributed or reattributed to Leonardo da Vinci in 2011. This painting disappeared from 1763 until 1900 when it was acquired from Sir Charles Robinson. It was at the time thought to be a work by Leonardo's follower, Bernardino Luini, and was purchased for the Doughty House in Richmond, London by Sir Francis Cook. By this time Christ's face and hair had been extensively repainted. A photograph taken in 1912 records ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Gioseffo Dal Sole
Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was an Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period. Upon the death of Carlo Cignani, Gioseffo dal Sole became among the most prominent painters in Bologna, described as the ''Guido Moderno''. Biography His father, Giovanni Antonio Maria, also called ''Mochino de` Paesi'' due to his ambidextrous dexterity, was a landscape painter who trained with Francesco Albani. Giovanni Gioseffo first apprenticed with Domenico Maria Canuti, and then in 1672; he entered the Roman studio of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He painted frescoes in the cupola of ''Santa Maria dei Poveri'' in Bologna, and an altarpiece of the ''Trinity'' (1700) for the ''Chiesa del Suffragio'' in Imola. He is said to have collaborated with Giuseppe Maria Crespi. He was one of the painters who contributed a canvas depicting the mythologic scene of ''Andromache weeping before Aeneas'' for the renowned ''Aenid Gallery'' of the Palazzo Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felice Boselli
Felice Boselli (Piacenza, 20 April 1650 – Parma, 23 August 1732) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over .... He was not the pupil of Giuseppe Nuvolone, the son of Panfilo, as some have stated, but instead of Giuseppe's brother, Michelangelo Nuvolone. In that studio, he met the still-life painter Angelo Maria Crivelli also called ''il Crivellone'', who became influential in his style. He is known for still-life paintings of live and dead game, including animals, birds, and fish. References * **Note Bryan misspells surname as ''Botelli''. * Short bibliography 1650 births 1732 deaths People from Piacenza 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcantonio Franceschini
Marcantonio Franceschini (; 1648 – 24 December 1729) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in his native Bologna. He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.''The picture collector's manual'' by James R. Hobbes London T&W Boone 1845 page 15/ref> Biography He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani, with whom he worked on the frescoes in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma (1678–81). He worked closely for many years with his brother-in-law, Luigi Quaini, who also was the cousin of Cignani. Franceschini had a long career painting canvases on religious and mythological subjects for patrons throughout Europe. Franceschini decorated some ceilings in the Palazzo Ranuzzi (1680) and the Palazzo Marescotti Brazzetti (1682) in Bologna. He helped paint in the tribune at church of San Bartolomeo Porta Ravegnana (1690). Franceschini frescoed the ceiling of the ''Sala d'Onore'' ("Hall of Honor") in the Ducal Palace of Modena, commissioned in 1696 for the marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Stringa
Francesco Stringa (1578–1615) was an Italian painter of the early- Baroque era, active mainly near his native city of Modena. He apprenticed initially, in 1595, in the Roman studio of Federico Zuccari, but soon came under the influence of the ascendant style of the Carracci. He returns in 1602–1606, to work for the Este court at Modena. In 1607, he worked with Ercole dell'Abate in decorating the ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio in the Palazzo Comunale. He also painted an ''Annunciation'' for Formigine and a ''Madonna and saints'' for the parish church of Fanano. In 1608, he became court painter for Duke Ranuccio I Farnese in Parma, where he painted a number of canvases now in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. He died in Parma. Among his pupils were Jacopino Consetti and Jacopo Zoboli Jacopo Zoboli (23 May 1681 – 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born at Modena about the year 1700. His first patron, Marquis Taddeo Rangone sent him to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Domenico Valentino
Giovanni Domenico Valentino (Rome, c. 1630- Imola, c. 1708) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, who specialized in a mix of genre and still life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ... painting. Sources CREDEM collection in Reggio Emilia External links 17th-century births 17th-century deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Italian still life painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Pasinelli
Lorenzo Pasinelli (September 4, 1629 – March 4, 1700) was an Italian painter active mainly in Bologna during the late Baroque period. He was born in Bologna, and initially trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini. He then pursued studies in Rome. Despite that training, his works have an air of Mannerism. In an overview of two major Bolognese painters circa 1700, one author describes that Pasinelli: ''Lorenzo liked the design of Raphael joined with the charm of Paolo Veronese; while Carlo (Cignani) liked the grace of Correggio united to the erudition of Annibale (Carracci) ... while Pisanelli did not attain a fullness of correct design, which (Veronese) had advanced ... no one will fail to recognize in Pisanelli large picturesque fire and great new ideas, but sometimes is a tad forced in his movements, and using new and bizarre clothes''. He collaborated after 1648 with Flaminio Torre. He is known to have painted a ''Miracle of St. Anthony'' for the church of San Francesc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Triva
Antonio Triva (1626–circa 1669) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period. Biography He was born in Reggio Emilia, and studied under Guercino in Bologna. Painted in Rome, Reggio, and Piacenza. He visited Venice, taking with him his sister Flaminia, who was also a painter. He painted a main altarpiece depicting the ''Resurrection of Lazarus'' for the church of the Colombini in Padua. A painting depicting the ''Holy Family returning from Egypt'' was found in the church of Santa Cristina delle Carmelitane Scalze in Turin. He painted a ''Giacobedda, Mother of Moses and Aaron'' and an ''Esther and Assuerus'', ''Moses near Roveto'', and ''Jacob's dream'' above the portal for the church of the Blessed Virgin of Campagna in Piacenza. He painted a ''Birth of the Virgin'' found as the main altarpiece of the Church of San Pace in Brescia. He was invited to the court of the Elector of Bavaria, and died in Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Cantarini
Simone Cantarini or Simone da Pesaro, called ''il Pesarese'' (Baptized on 21 August 1612 – 15 October 1648) was an Italian painter and etcher. He is mainly known for his history paintings and portraits executed in an original style, which united aspects of Bolognese classicism with a bold naturalism. Cantarini was also a gifted etcher who achieved extraordinary delicacy and a vibrant and luminous quality in his graphic work.Marina Garofoli. "Cantarini, Simone." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 12 June 2016 Life Cantarini was born in Pesaro, now a town in the Italian region of the Marche, then part of the Papal States and ruled by the Della Rovere. He was baptized on 21 August 1612. His father Girolamo was a prominent merchant and the family was well-off.Mario Mancigotti, ''Il Pesarese ed i suoi capolavori. Simone Cantarini 1612-1648'', Walter Staffogia Editore, September 2006 There is no documentary information on Cantarini's early t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelica And Medoro
Angelica and Medoro was a popular subject for Romantic painters, composers and writers from the 16th until the 19th century. Angelica and Medoro are two characters from the 16th-century Italian epic '' Orlando Furioso'' by Ludovico Ariosto. Angelica was an Asian princess at the court of Charlemagne who fell in love with the Saracen knight Medoro, and eloped with him to China. While in the original work, Orlando was the main character, many adaptations focused purely or mainly on the love between Angelica and Medoro, with the favourite scenes in paintings being Angelica nursing Medoro, and Angelica carving their names into a tree, a scene which was the theme of at least 25 paintings between 1577 and 1825. Episodes in the story Angelica and Medoro are on different sides in the war, and their first encounter is when Angelica comes across the wounded Medoro. He has been wounded in a skirmish with Scottish knights, in which his two friends Cloridano and Dardinello were killed. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Francesco Nuvolone
Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1608 or 1609 in Milan – 1661 or 1662 in Milan)The entry on Carlo Francesco Nuvolon, in: ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 79'' (2013) places his birth in 1608 or 1609 and gives his death date as 1 August 1661 was an Italian painter of religious subjects and portraits who was active mainly in Lombardy. He became the leading painter in Lombardy in the mid-17th century, producing works on canvas as well as frescoes.Francesco Frangi. "Nuvolone." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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