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San Francesco Di Paola, Palermo
San Francesco di Paola is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church and monastery, located on Via Carini corner Piazza San Francesco di Paola, in Palermo, Italy. History and description A vineyard and church was present at the site by the 14th century, dedicated to St Oliva, who putatively had died as a martyr in North Africa in 463, and had been buried at a cemetery here outside the city walls. A document from 1310 mentions a church or chapel at the site. It was enlarged by a confraternity of tailors in 1485. Putatively, in 1495, while the Count of Monteleone, Don Ettore Pignatelli, was imprisoned in Tours by the French King Charles VIII, he was visited by St Francis of Paola. Putatively, the friar predicted Pignatelli would be freed and made viceroy of Sicily. Viceroy Pignatelli in the early 16th century ceded the church of St Oliva to the order of Minims, recently founded by St Francis of Paola. In Palermo, there were four churches and monasteries associated with the Minims: thi ... [...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] |
Palermo Cathedral
Palermo Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, located in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. As an architectural complex, it is characterized by the presence of different styles, due to a long history of additions, alterations and restorations, the last of which occurred in the 18th century. History The church was erected in 1185 by Walter Ophamil, the Norman archbishop of Palermo and King William II of Sicily, William II's minister, on the area of an earlier Byzantine basilica. By all accounts this earlier church was founded by Pope Gregory I and was later turned into a mosque by the Saracens after their conquest of the city in the 9th century. Ophamil is buried in a sarcophagus in the church's crypt. The medieval edifice had a basilica plan with three apses, of which only some minor architectural elements survive today. The upper orders of the corner towers were built between the 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Churches In Palermo
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Giuseppe Salerno
Giuseppe Salerno, more commonly called ''il Zoppo di Gangi'' (Cripple from the town of Gangi) (1588-1630) was an Italian painter active in his native Sicily in a Mannerist style. He may have used the title of ''Zoppo'' because he was a pupil of Gaspare Vazzano or Bazzano (1562 - 1630), who also was known as the ''Zoppo di Gangi''. Among his known works are: *''Madonna delle Grazie with Saints Mark and Blaise'' (1611): Chiesa di San Marco e Biagio, Petralia Sottana *''Holy Family with Saint Anne and Joachim'' (1607): San Francesco d'Assisi, Petralia Sottana *''St Francis receives stigmata'' (1624): San Francesco d'Assisi, Petralia Sottana *''Triumph of the Eucharist with Saints Catherine and Peter Martyr'' (1617): Chiesa Madre, Petralia Sottana *''Triumph of the Eucharist with Saints Catherine and Peter Martyr'' (1607): Chiesa Madre, Petralia Sottana *''Five Wounds of Christ'' (1629): Chiesa Madre, Petralia Sottana *''St Maurus Abbot'' (1623): Chiesa Madre, Petralia Sottana *''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Francis Of Paola
Francis of Paola, O.M., (or: Francesco di Paola or Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507) was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims. Unlike the majority of founders of men's religious orders, and like his patron saint, Francis was never ordained a priest. Biography Francis was born in the town of Paola, which lies in the southern Italian Province of Cosenza, Calabria. In his youth he was educated by the Franciscan friars in Paola. His parents, having remained childless for some years after their marriage, had recourse to prayer and especially commended themselves to the intercession of Francis of Assisi, after whom they named their first-born son. Two other children were eventually born to them. When still in the cradle, Francis suffered from a swelling which endangered the sight of one of his eyes. His parents again had recourse to Francis of Assisi and made a vow that their son should pass an entire year wearing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Gagini
Giacomo Gagini (also Gaggini) (15 December 1517 – 25 June 1598) was an Italian sculptor of the Gagini family. Born in Palermo, he was the son of the sculptor Antonello Gagini, and the brother of Fazio and Vincenzo, and half-brother of Giovanni Domenico and Antonino Gagini, all sculptors. He started to collaborate with his father at an early age, including the work at the Palermo Cathedral. In 1536 he sculpted two statues for the church of San Francesco di Paola and, in 1537, the Omodei tomb in the church of San Francesco d'Assisi. In 1544, also in the Palermo Cathedral, he sculpted the archbishop's throne, together with his brother Fazio and others. He also produced numerous works in the province of Palermo (Trapani, Alcamo, Sinagra, Naro, Pettineo Pettineo (Sicilian language, Sicilian: ''Pittineu'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italy, Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina. Petti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Filippina, Palermo
Villa Filippina is presently an urban public park and host to various cultural events, with one entrance on Via Villa Filippina, facing the park in front of San Francesco di Paola, in Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. History The site was conceived as a large cloister for the Oratorian order. The nearly circumvalent arcade was built between 1755-1757 under the patronage of Don Angelo Serio, who left his inheritance to the order. His portrait is sculpted on the inner side of the entrance arch. Some of the walls inside the arcade were frescoed by Vito D’Anna and Antonio Manno. In the center is a Billiemi stone fountain (1759) sculpted by Gioacchino Vitagliano, and decorated with statues of the saints Ignatius of Loyola, Felix of Cantalice Felix of Cantalice, O.F.M. Cap. ( it, Felice da Cantalice; 18 May 1515 – 18 May 1587) was an Italian people, Italian Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Capuchin friar of the 16th century. Canonized by Pope Clement XI in 1712, he was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece, ancient Greek and Ancient Rome, Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by Baroque architecture. Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Brunelleschi as one of its innovators, the Renaissance style quickly spread to other Italian cities. The style was carried to Spain, France, Germany, England, Russia and other parts of Europe at different dates and with varying degrees of impact. Renaissance style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion (architecture), proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts, as demonstrated in the architecture of classical antiquity and in particular ancient Roman architecture, of which many examples remained. Orderly arrangements of columns, pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Architecture
Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. It originated in the Île-de-France and Picardy regions of northern France. The style at the time was sometimes known as ''opus Francigenum'' (lit. French work); the term ''Gothic'' was first applied contemptuously during the later Renaissance, by those ambitious to revive the architecture of classical antiquity. The defining design element of Gothic architecture is the pointed or ogival arch. The use of the pointed arch in turn led to the development of the pointed rib vault and flying buttresses, combined with elaborate tracery and stained glass windows. At the Abbey of Saint-Denis, near Paris, the choir was reconstructed between 1140 and 1144, draw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oratorio Dei Bianchi, Palermo
The Oratorio dei Bianchi is a Baroque architecture, Baroque chapel or prayer room located on the Piazzeta dei Bianchi, about equidistant between the churches of Santa Maria dello Spasimo and Santa Teresa alla Kalsa in the Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter of the Kalsa, within the historic centre of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. History This peculiar oratory is composed of diverse components incongruently linked. The main oratory was built in 1686, after a fire in 1600 destroyed the prior church of ''Santa Maria della Vittoria'', initially built by the Minims (religious order), Minims order in 1477. This ancient church was dedicated to the Virgin and contained the tag ''della Vittoria'', because in the 11th-century, the Normans under Robert Guiscard had been able to enter the besieged Saracen city through a gate at this site. The ground floor of the exterior is made from large stone blocks with masks sculpted in the arch keystones. The second story has a more sober facad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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