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San Francesco Di Paola, Florence
San Francesco di Paola is a small Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church in the Oltrarno quarter of Florence, central Italy. History It was built starting from the 1580s as part of a new monastery of the Minims, known as the ''Convento del Bel Riposo''. The church was dedicated to the founder of the order, St. Francis of Paola. The structure was completed, with the financial patronage of Alessandro Cammillo degli Strozzi, a member of the Strozzi family, around 1643, including interventions by architect Gherardo Silvani in 1638. Silvani, Giovanni Caccini, and Valerio Cioli contributed to the sculptural and stucco decoration of the church. When the Minims were suppressed at the end of the 18th century, the annexed convent was turned into a patrician villa by the Federighi family in 1873. The church, restored in 1996-2005, is now a local parish church along with the nearby San Vito e Modesto a Bellosguardo. The main work of art is a fresco of ''Madonna del Parto'' ("Our Lady of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taddeo Gaddi
Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1290, in Florence – 1366, in Florence) was a medieval Italian painter and architect. He was the son of Gaddo di Zanobi, called Gaddo Gaddi. He was a member of Giotto's workshop from 1313 until the master's death in 1337. According to Giorgio Vasari, he was considered Giotto's most talented pupil: in 1347 he was placed at the top in a list of Florence's most renowned painters. He also traded as a merchant, and had a branch establishment in Venice. As well as a painter, he was a mosaicist and architect. His main work is the cycle of ''Stories of the Virgin'' in the Baroncelli Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence (1328–1338). Later he perhaps painted the cabinet tiles in the sacristy of the same church, now divided among the Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence and museums in Munich and Berlin. These works show his mastership of Giotto's new style, to which he added a personal experimentation in the architectural backgrounds, such as in the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaissance Architecture In Florence
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Roman Catholic Churches In Florence
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Santa Trinita
Santa Trinita (; Italian for "Holy Trinity") is a Roman Catholic church located in front of the piazza of the same name, traversed by Via de' Tornabuoni, in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is the mother church of the Vallumbrosan Order of monks, founded in 1092 by a Florentine nobleman. South on Via de' Tornabuoni is the Ponte Santa Trinita over the river Arno; across the street is the Palazzo Spini Feroni. History The church is home to the Sassetti Chapel, containing 15th-century frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio, and the Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel, with frescoes by Lorenzo Monaco. Even though the modern Italian word for "trinity" is ''trinità '', with an accent indicating stress on the last vowel, the old Florentine pronunciation used to put the stress on the first vowel, and the name is therefore written without an accent; sometimes, it is accented as ''trìnita'' to indicate the unusual pronunciation. The current church was constructed in 1258–1280 at the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Della Robbia
Luca della Robbia (, also , ; 1399/1400–1482) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence. Della Robbia is noted for his colorful, Tin-glazed pottery, tin-glazed terracotta statuary, a technique which he invented and passed on to his nephew Andrea della Robbia and great-nephews Giovanni della Robbia and Girolamo della Robbia. Though a leading sculptor in stone, he worked primarily in terracotta after developing his technique in the early 1440s. His large workshop produced both cheaper works cast from molds in multiple versions, and more expensive one-off individually modeled pieces. The vibrant, polychrome glazes made his creations both more durable and expressive. His work is noted for its charm rather than the drama of the work of some of his contemporaries. Two of his famous works are ''The Nativity'' () and ''Madonna and Child'' (). In stone his most famous work is also his first major commission, the choir gallery, ''Cantoria'' in the Florence Cathedral (1431–143 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benozzo Federighi
Benozzo Federighi (died 1450) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Fiesole (1421–1450). ''(in Latin)'' ''(in Latin)''"Bishop Benozzo Federighi" ''''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017"Diocese of Fiesole" ''''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 7, 2016 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Moriani
Giuseppe Moriani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Tuscany in the late 17th and early 18th century. He was strongly influenced by Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani. He painted the ''Story of Santa Verdiana'' in the church of Santa Verdiana in Castelfiorentino, in collaboration with Sagrestani, Ranieri del Pace, Niccolò Lapi, Antonio Puglieschi, and Agostino Veracini. In the museum of sacred art in Greve in Chianti, is Moriani's ''Healing of the blind since birth''. He painted the canvases of ''Miracles of San Francesco di Paola'' for the Church of San Francesco di Paola, Florence San Francesco di Paola is a small Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church in the Oltrarno quarter of Florence, central Italy. History It was built starting from the 1580s as part of a new monastery of the Minims, known as the ''Convento del Bel .... Among other Italian persons named Giuseppe Moriani is a violinist, and also a Florentine glassblower. Sources *Italian Wikiped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignazio Hugford
''A miracle of St. Francis of Paola'' by Hugford. Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford (1703–1778), was an Italian painter active mostly in Tuscany in an early Neoclassic style. Life and work Ignazio Hugford was born in Pisa, the son of a resident English watchmaker who worked for the House of Medici. Hugford was at the age of 9 an apprentice with Anton Domenico Gabbiani. In 1745, he painted over a dozen canvases for the refectory of the Benedictine Abbey of Vallombrosa, where his brother, Ferdinando Enrico, became abbot. Hugford was also instrumental in the development of techniques for scagliola. Hugford joined the ''Accademia del Disegno'' of Florence, and published a biography on his mentor. He was also involved in designs for works in scagliola. Among his masterpieces in painting is the '' Countess Matilde Donates her Riches to the Church'' in the church of San Bartolommeo in Pantano in Pistoia. In the same Pistoiese church are canvasses of ''St. Peter crosses the fire' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovan 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 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 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 Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence Santa M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pier Maggiore, Florence
San Pier Maggiore was a church and monastery in Florence, Tuscany, central Italy that existed from the eleventh to the eighteenth century, and hosted ceremonies for the reception of newly appointed Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence, Bishops of Florence. History of the building A church was already present at the site when a Benedictines, Benedictine convent was established there in 1067 by the Florentine noblewoman Gisla and the then-Bishop Peter Mezzabarba, and a Gothic architecture, Gothic church was built here in the early fourteenth century. The Florentine government almost entirely removed this church in 1784 and replaced it with a marketplace, although three arches of the portico have been preserved into the twenty-first century. The church and social life The church of San Pier Maggiore played a role in a ritual that was performed every time a new bishop of Florence was appointed. Traditionally, from the late thirteenth century until the late sixteenth century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerio Cioli
Valerio Cioli (or Cigoli or Giogoli) (1529–1599) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor. Works His most famous work is the '' Fontana del Bacchino'' (1560) in the Giardino di Boboli, near the entrance to piazza Pitti in Florence. It depicts the famed dwarf buffoon at the court of Cosimo I, ironically nicknamed ''Morgante'' (after the giant of the poem ''Morgante'' by Luigi Pulci), portrayed nuded and sitting on a tortoise like a drunken Bacchus.https://www.frilligallery.com/goto/popup/catalogue-detail/show/268,5/morgante-dwarf-from-boboli-garden Two more of Cioli's works (collaborations with Giovanni Simone Cioli) are to be found in the giardino di Boboli - the ''Uomo che vanga'' (digging man) and the ''Uomo che scarica il secchio in un tino'' (man emptying a bucket into a vat). Other works of his include a ''Satyr with a flask'' in the Museo del Bargello and sculptures of personifications of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture on the tomb of Michelangelo Buonarroti in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
