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Reggio Emilia Cathedral
Reggio Emilia Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Reggio Emilia; Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral (and one of the three main religious buildings) in Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy). The dedication is to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Formerly the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Reggio Emilia, it has been since 1986 that of the Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla. Description Built originally in Romanesque style, the cathedral was largely modified in the following centuries. The façade originally had 13th-century frescoes, now housed in the diocesan museum. The current façade is unfinished, with a 16th-century covering on the lower level, with pilasters surrounding niches containing the statues of the four patron saints of the city. The main portal has two statues by Prospero Spani (Prospero Sogari) in a style influenced by Michelangelo, portraying Adam and Eve. In February 2009 it was announced that a Roman mosaic floor filled with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic
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Girolamo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi (4 May 1570 – 15 July 1655) was an Italian architect who worked mainly in a conservative Mannerist style, often with collaborating architects. He was a successful competitor of Bernini. His son, Carlo Rainaldi, became an even more notable, more fully Baroque architect. Biography The son of a painter from Norcia, Rainaldi was born in Rome. He trained with the architect-engineer Domenico Fontana and collaborated as a junior partner with Giacomo Della Porta, whom he succeeded as the papacy's chief architect, as "officium architecti nobilis fabricae Capitolii Populi Romani". He completed too Palazzo Albertoni Spinola projected from Giacomo Della Porta. He was constantly at work on lesser projects such as altars and church furnishings, and with on-going projects of other designers, especially at St Peter's and in completing Michelangelo's project at the Campidoglio with the Palazzo Nuovo discreetly designed to mirror Michelangelo's masterful Palazzo dei Conserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Fontanesi
Francesco Fontanesi (October 4, 1751 – 1795) was an Italian painter and scenic designer of the Neoclassical style, active mainly in Reggio Emilia and Parma. Biography He was born in Reggio Emilia to supportive parents, who fostered a broad classical education. He is said to have trained under Giuseppe Bazzani and Prospero Zanichelli in Reggio. He gravitated towards working in scenic design. In 1772 he decorated for the ''Melodrama Buffo'' by Niccolò Piccinni titled ''L' Astratto'' or ''il Giuocatore fortunato''. In May 1776, for a lavish court performance at Parma sponsored by Francesco III of Este, he decorated an Antonio Vivaldi opera, titled ''Motezuma'' where he painted the scenes for the two accompanying dances: ''La Principessa di Tingi'' and ''Tenis ed Amalsi''. The first dance had scenes with *1. Great pavilion adorned with military trophies. *2. An army field with pavilions and a city distant. *3. Interior of a city with balconies draped with riched tapestries and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virgin Appears To Saint Luke And Saint Catherine (Annibale Carracci)
''The Virgin Appears to the Saint Luke and Saint Catherine'' is an oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, now in the Louvre in Paris. It was commissioned in 1589 for the notaries' chapel in Reggio Emilia Cathedral and completed three years later It is also known as ''The Virgin of Saint Luke'', ''The Saint Luke Madonna and Child'' and ''Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Luke and Saint Catherine''. Luke was chosen as the patron saint of both painters and notaries, appearing twice, at bottom left and top right. The work was looted from Italy by Napoleon's troops in 1798, placed in the Louvre and not returned to Italy after the end of the Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...'s. References 1592 paintings Paintings by Annibale Carracci Paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci (; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism. Painters working under Annibale at the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese would be highly influential in Roman painting for decades. Early career Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood was first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his brother Agostino and his cousin Ludovico Carracci opened a painters' studio, initially called by some the ''Academy of the Desiderosi'' (desirous of fame and learning) and subsequently the ''Incamminati'' (progressives; literally "of those opening a new way"). Considered "the first major art school ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orazio Talami
Orazio Talami (1624–September 15, 1705) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Reggio Emilia. Biography Talami was born and died in Reggio Emilia. He was a pupil of the painter Pietro Desani. He may have also spent some years of his youth working with Leonello Spada. He painted a for the presbytery of the Cathedral at Reggio; he painted ''Cathedra of St Peter'' for the church of San Prospero in Reggio, a ''St Francis Xavier and the Redemption of the Blessed Slaves'' for San Giacomo; a ''St Phillip Benizzi'' for the Basilica della Ghiara; a ''St Joseph'' for the church of San Giorgio; a ''St Michele'' for the church of San Bartolommeo; a ''St Contardo'' for the church of San Nazzaro; a ''St Peter in Chains'' for the church of San Agostino; and ''Three Magi'' for San Filippo Neri in Reggio. He ceased to paint after 1699. The painters Jacopo BaccariniJR Hobbes. and Mattia Benedetti Mattia Benedetti was an Italian painter. He was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastiano Vercellesi
Sebastiano is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Sebastiano Antonio Tanara (1650–1724), Italian cardinal * Sebastiano Baggio (1913–1993), Italian clergyman * Sebastiano Bianchi (16th century), Italian engraver * Sebastiano Bombelli (1635–1724), Italian painter * Sebastiano Brunetti (died 1649), Italian painter * Sebastiano Carezo (fl. 1780), Spanish dancer (''Sebastián Cerezo'') * Sebastiano Conca (c. 1680 – 1764), Italian painter * Sebastiano Dolci (1699–1777), Croatian writer * Sebastiano Esposito (born 2002), Italian footballer * Sebastiano Filippi (c. 1536 – 1602), Italian late Renaissance-Mannerist painter * Sebastiano Galeotti (1656–1746), Italian painter * Sebastiano Ghezzi (1580–1645), Italian painter and architect * Sebastiano Guala (17th century), Italian church architect * Sebastiano Martinelli (1848–1918), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Sebastiano Mazzoni (c. 1611 – 1678), Italian pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Vellani
Francesco Vellani (1688–1768) was an Italian painter, active in Modena in a late Baroque style. He mainly painted sacred subjects. He painted an altarpiece depicting the ''Assumption of the Virgin'' for the Cathedral of Modena; an ''Immaculate Conception'' for the main altar of the Chiesa Nuova; for the church of the Monache della Visitazione; a '' St Pius V and St Thomas Acquinas'' for the church of San Domenico; an altarpiece depicting ''St John of the Cross'' for the Church of the Monache Scalze in Modena. Vellani also completed a number of fresco projects in 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 abou ... including in The palaces Masdoni and Tirelli, as well as for the Oratory of San Spiridione. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vellani, Francesco 1688 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Bononi
Carlo Bononi (1569? - 1632) was an Italian painter. From an 1876 book: '' Giulio Cromer, Carlo Bononi a pupil of Bastaruolo, and Alfonso Rivarola or Chenda, were the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara.'' Page 175 Biography Born and active mainly in Emilia and Ferrara, and considered to be mainly a painter of the School of Ferrara. He studied painting under Giuseppe Mazzuoli, known as ''il Bastarolo''. He knew Guercino and was eulogized by Guido Reni as having a "bounty of a most honest life, a great knowledge of design, and strength in colorizing". Bononi rose to prominence in Ferrara when the painter Scarsellino died, and the former called to Rome. He was initially buried in Santa Maria in Vado, for which he had helped decorate the ceiling with various canvases. Among his pupils were Alfonso Rivarola (il Chenda), Giovanni Battista dalla Torre, and Camillo Berlinghieri. His nephew, Leonello Bononi was also a painter. An important exhibition has been held at Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guercino
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner contrasts with the classical equilibrium of his later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style. Biography Giovanni Francesco Barbieri was born into a family of peasant farmers in Cento, a town in the Po Valley mid-way between Bologna and Ferrara.Mahon, 1937a Being cross-eyed, at an early age he acquired the nickname by which he is universally known, Guercino (a diminutive of the Italian noun '' guercio'', meaning 'squinter').Turner, 2003 Mainly self-taught, at the age of 16, he worked as apprentice in the shop of Benedetto Gennari, a painter of the Bolognese School. An early commission was for the decoration with frescos (1615–1616) of Casa Pannini in Cento, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Giarola
Giovanni Giarola or Gerolli (1518–1557) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance style, active mainly in Reggio Emilia. He was born in the frazione of Fosdondo of Correggio, Emilia-Romagna. He is said to have trained under Antonio Allegri Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sens ... in Correggio. By 1544, he was married and living in Reggio Emilia. He painted for four chapels in the church of San Prospero in that city. He frescoed the facade of the palace of Conti Malaguzzi da San Tommaso. He died in Reggio. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Correggio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Baroque art of the seventeenth century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century. He is considered a master of chiaroscuro. Early life Antonio Allegri was born in Correggio, Italy, Correggio, a small town near Reggio Emilia. His date of birth is uncertain (around 1489). His father was a merchant. Otherwise little is known about Correggio's early life or training. It is, however, often assumed that he had his first artistic education from his father's brother, the painter Lorenzo Allegri (painter), Lorenzo Allegri. In 1503–1505, he was apprenticed to Francesco Bianchi Ferrara in Modena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
