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Santa Lucia, Padua
Santa Lucia, also called the ''Chiesa dell'Adorazione Perpetua'' is a Roman Catholic church located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. History A church at the site was present since the 10th century. It was rebuilt in the late 17th-century using designs by Gerolamo Frigimelica, and completed by Sante Bonato. The brick façade has four columns of composite order. Flanking the portal are statues of Saints Peter and Paul by Giovanni Bonazza, and St Bartholemew by Giovanni's son, Antonio Bonazza. The statues of Saints Luke, Cristopher, Matthew, John, and Joseph were completed by Antonio da Verona. Inside, the church houses an altarpiece depicting the ''Incredulity of St Thomas'' by Alessandro Varotari; and in the presbytery, an altarpiece depicting the ''Church in Prayer and the Glory of the Eucharist'' (1959) by Amleto Sartori. Also in the presbytery is a ''St Luke'' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic
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Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, PÃ dova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 214,000 (). The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian ''Venezia'') and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000. Padua stands on the Bacchiglione, Bacchiglione River, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (''Pianura Veneta''). To the city's south west lies the Colli Euganei, Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley. Padua appears twice in the UNESCO World Heritage List: for its Botanical Garden of Padua, Botanical Garden, the most anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veneto
Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire until the 5th century AD. Later, after a Feudalism, feudal period, it was part of the Republic of Venice until 1797. Venice ruled for centuries over one of the largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Republic was combined with Lombardy and annexed to the Austrian Empire as the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, until that was Italian unification, merged with the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence. Besides Italian language, Italian, most inhabitants also speak Venetian language, Venetian. Since 1971, the Statute of Veneto has referred to the region's citizens as "the Venetian people". Article 1 defines Veneto as an " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerolamo Frigimelica
Gerolamo Frigimelica Roberti (10 January 1653 - 15 November 1732) was an Italian architect, librettist, and poet. Biography Born in Padua to a father who had married into the noble Robert family, thus gaining a title of Count for his son. Gerolamo acquired a broad humanist education and from 1691 to 1720 was curator of the public library of Padua and admitted as member to its ''Accademia galileiana di scienze, lettere ed arti'' or ''Accademia dei Ricovrati''. In 1721, he moved to Modena. He was now active mainly as an architect, designing palaces and churches in Padua, Vicenza, and Modena. He worked on the ''Cappella del Santissimo'' at the Basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova and made designs for the churches of Santa Maria del Torresino and Santa Lucia at Padua. He also made designs for the church of San Gaetano in Vicenza, and the palaces Mussato and Buzzacarini in Padua; and the enlargement for the Palazzo Pisani a San Stefano in Venice. He is known for having produced an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sante Bonato
Sante is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Sante Bentivoglio (1426–1462), Italian nobleman * Sante Geronimo Caserio (1873–1894), Italian anarchist and assassin * Sante Cattaneo (1739–1819), Italian Neoclassic painter * Sante Ceccherini (1863–1932), Italian fencer * Sante Gaiardoni (born 1939), Italian cyclist * Sante Geminiani (1919–1951), Italian motorcycle racer * Sante Graziani (1920–2005), American artist *Sante Kimes (1934–2014), American murderer *Sante Lombardo (1504–1560), Italian architect *Sante Marsili (born 1950), Italian water polo player *Sante Monachesi (born 1910), Italian painter *Sante Poromaa (born 1958), Swedish Zen Buddhist priest *Sante De Sanctis (1862–1935), Italian psychologist *Sante Vandi (1653–1716), Italian Baroque painter Surname: *Lucy Sante (born 1954), Belgian-American writer and critic See also * "Santé" (song), a 2021 song by Belgian singer Stromae *Sante Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Bonazza
Antonio Bonazza (1698 – c. 1762) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo. Antonio was the son of Giovanni Bonazza, a prominent sculptor active in Padua (1654–1736), and member of a large family of sculptors. He may have been influenced by Orazio Marinali of Vicenza. Antonio is best known for his sculpture of genre themes, carved in local stone, suggesting characters from the theater for the formal gardens of Villa Ludovico Widmann at Bagnoli near Padua. His genre subjects may have influenced F. A. Bustelli’s porcelain figures produced at Nymphenburg porcelain The Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory (German: ''Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg'') is located at the ''Nördliche Schloßrondell'' in one of the ''Cavalier Houses'' in front of the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germany, and since its establi ... factory. Sources ‘’La Vecchia’’* 1698 births 1762 deaths 18th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 18th-century Italian male artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Varotari
Alessandro Leone Varotari (4 April 1588 – 20 July 1649), also commonly known as Il Padovanino, was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early- Baroque Venetian school, best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi, Giulio Carpioni, and Bartolommeo Scaligero. He was the son of Dario Varotari the Elder and the brother of painter Chiara Varotari, who accompanied him on his travels and assisted with his work.Alessandro Varotari in the Biography Born in , from which his nickname derives, he was the son of the local painter and architect[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amleto Sartori
Amleto Sartori (3 November 1915 – 18 February 1962) was an Italian sculptor and poet from Padua most famous for his theater masks. First a sculptor, after the Second World War, Sartori began to fervently study the masks of Commedia dell'Arte which led him to a technique of modeling leather masks on wooden molds. His mask making techniques became famous, and his son Donato (1939 - 2016) later continued the work. Sartori became friends with Jacques Lecoq, who introduced him to the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, where he met Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi. This was a turning point in Sartori's career, and brought him into contact with other artists such as Ferruccio Soleri and Marcello Moretti for the construction of masks for their theater productions. In 1979 his son Donato Sartori founded the ''Centro maschere e strutture gestuali'' in Padua, while in 2004, after his death, the International Museum of the Masks of Amleto and Donato Sartori ''(Museo Internazionale della Maschera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, and Francesco Guardi are considered the traditional Old Masters of that period. Successful from the beginning of his career, he has been described by Michael Levey as "the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, as well as its most able craftsman." Biography ''The Glory of St. Dominic'', 1723 Early life (1696–1726) Born in Venice, he was the youngest of six children of Domenico and Orsetta Tiepolo. His father was a small shipping merchant who belonged to a family th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oratory Of San Rocco, Padua
The Oratory of San Rocco (Oratory of St Roch) is a Renaissance architecture, Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located in the city center of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. It arises adjacent to the church of Santa Lucia, Padua, Santa Lucia, and is notable for its collection of frescoes. History The oratory arose at the site used as a church cemetery, but granted to confraternity of San Rocco. In 1525, construction began and was not completed until 1542. The lower hall of the oratory is richly frescoed with scenes of the life of St Roch. The frescoes were completed between 1536 and 1545 by the painters Domenico Campagnola, Girolamo Tessari, Gualtiero Padovano, and Stefano Dall'Arzere. Three of these artists also frescoed the oratory known as the ''Scuola del Carmine'' at the church of the Basilica del Carmine, Padua, Carmine in town. The main altar is made with polychrome marble, and the altarpiece on display is a ''Madonna with Saints'' (1697) by Alessandro Maganza. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
