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Santa Maria Maggiore, Bologna
Santa Maria Maggiore is a former Collegiate, Roman Catholic church, located on Via Galliera #10 in central Bologna, Italy. It is a house over from the Palazzo Aldrovandi. History The church arose on the site in the 5th century but was reconstructed over the centuries. The present church took shape in 1665 under designs of Paolo Canali. The interior has paintings by Orazio Samacchini, Prospero Fontana, Alessandro Tiarini, Vicenzo Spisanelli, Mauro Gandolfi, Pietro Fancelli, Jacopo Alessandro Calvi, and Alessandro Guardassoni. The chapel of the Holy Sacrament was stuccoed by A G Pio. The main altar (1749) is attributed to Alfonso Torreggiani Alfonso Torreggiani (1682–1764) was an Italian architect of the Rococo period, principally associated with Bologna. Life Torregiani was born in Budrio. An apprentice of Giuseppe Antonio Torri, he became intensely active in the city of Bol .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic
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Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 1,000,000 people. It is known as the Fat City for its rich cuisine, and the Red City for its Spanish-style red tiled rooftops and, more recently, its leftist politics. It is also called the Learned City because it is home to the oldest university in the world. Originally Etruscan, the city has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it ''Felsina''), then under the Celts as ''Bona'', later under the Romans (''Bonōnia''), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later ''signoria'', when it was among the largest European cities by population. Famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Aldrovandi, Bologna
The Palazzo Aldovrandi is a ''Senatorial'' palace on Via Galliera 8 in Bologna, built in Rococo style. History Replacing an older construction, the palace we see today began in 1725 under the patronage of the Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi with plans commissioned from Franco Maria Angelini. After Angelini's death in 1731, the work, including the Rococo facade, ornamented with Istrian marble, continued by 1741 under Alfonso Torreggiani. He designed the palaces ornate and peculiar Rococo windows with almost undulating arches superiorly. The palace lacks the typical porticos seen in older Bolognes palaces. One house over on Via Galliera 4, the Palazzo Torfanini has a Renaissance architecture ground arcade, but a piano nobile refurbished with windows by the same architect Torreggiani. Further down the street on Via Galliera 10 is the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The cardinal's once large art collection mainly made its way to the National Gallery of London. The library was dispersed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Canali
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Orazio Samacchini
Orazio Samacchini (20 December 1532 – 12 June 1577) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Mannerist style, active in Rome, Parma, and his native city. Biography He was born and died in Bologna. A close friend of Lorenzo Sabbatini, Samacchini traveled to Rome where he participated in 1563 in the decoration of the Vatican Belvedere and of the Sala Regia of Pius IV, along with Taddeo Zuccari and his brother. He returned to Bologna, where he was influenced by Pellegrino Tibaldi. Sammacchini painted for the Palazzo Vitelli a Sant'Egidio, Città di Castello, San Giacomo Maggiore, the church of Corpus Domini in Bologna, and Santa Maria Maggiore (Santa Maria Della Vita?) in Bologna. He painted frescoes of ''Virtues, Prophets, and Angels'' in Sant'Abbondio, Cremona. Instructions for how to paint (1570) in the Cathedral of Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospero Fontana
Prospero Fontana (1512–1597) was a Bolognese painter of late Renaissance and Mannerist art. He is perhaps best known for his frescoes and architectural detailing. The speed in which he completed paintings earned him commissions where he worked with other prominent artists of the period. He was a prominent figure in the city of Bologna, serving as official arbitrator in the business disputes of local artists. In his later career Fontana trained younger painters, including his own daughter Lavinia. Professional life Prospero Fontana was likely taught by Innocenzo da Imola, but there is a degree of uncertainty surrounding the relationship between the two men. As a teenager, Fontana was an assistant on Perino del Vaga's Palazzo Doria in Genoa. However, art historians cannot definitively identity Fontana's contributions to the decorations. In the 1550s, Fontana painted Pope Julius III's portrait and was pensioned at the pontifical court. He also decorated the Palazzo di Firenz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Tiarini
Alessandro Tiarini (20 March 1577 – 8 February 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Biography Alessandro Tiarini was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt. Early on his family tried, unsuccessfully, to guide him towards becoming a cleric. He was the godson of painter Lavinia Fontana and initially apprenticed in Bologna under her father Prospero Fontana, and subsequently with Bartolomeo Cesi. He was not inducted into the Carracci Academy. Forced to flee from Bologna, due to what Malvasia and Amorini describe as a quarrel leading to the death of the other party, he moved to Florence, where he painted frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces (1599–1606) including an ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' (Pitti Palace). In Florence, he mainly worked under Domenico Passignano, but also Bernardino Poccetti and Jacopo da Empoli. He was lured back to Bologna and Reggio Emilia, by Ludovico Carracci. His ''Grieving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicenzo Spisanelli
Vincenzo Spisanelli (1595–1662) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. Spisanelli was born at Orta San Giulio, Piedmont. He was a pupil of Denis Calvaert in Bologna, but was also active in Ferrara, Imola, Modena, and in Lombardy. He survived the plague of 1630, but not his wife, and he was afflicted with melancholy for the remainder of his life. He was prolific in the painting of altarpieces. He is also called ''Lo Spisanelli'' or ''Pisanelli'', ''Spisano'', or ''Spisani''. His only son, the painter Giulio Pisanelli Giulio Spisanelli (died 1658) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. Spisanelli was born at Bologna. His brother was the painter Ippolito Bolognese. He first trained under the painter Vincenzo Spisanelli, his fa ..., died a few years before his father. He died at Bologna in 1662. References * 1595 births 1662 deaths People from Orta San Giulio 16th-century Italian painters Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro Gandolfi
Mauro Gandolfi (18 September 1764 – 4 January 1834) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School. Personal Gandolfi was from a family of artists. His father was the painter Gaetano Gandolfi, and he had six younger brothers, all painters. He enrolled at age 16 in the French army. In 1791, he was then a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna and became a collaborator of his father. In 1792 he married Laura Zanetti. Work Gandolfi was promoted to professor at the Academy in 1794. After the turn of the century he switched to engraving. In 1801, he moved to Paris to specialize as an engraver, and created reproductions by engraving the works of French museums. After returning to Italy, he worked as an engraver in Bologna. In 1816, he traveled to New York City and Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Fancelli
Pietro Fancelli (18 May 1764 – 22 January 1850) was an Italian painter and set-designer. Biography Pietro was born in Bologna to Petronio, a quadraturista, and Orsola Benedelli. Petronio moved the family to Venice in 1774, and his son worked with the father and a painter from Brescia called Lodovico Gallina. On returning to Bologna, he trained at the Accademia Clementina, winning the Marsigli Aldrovandi prize in 1784. In 1785, his ''Death of Virginia'' won a further award. He became faculty at the Clementine Academy of Fine Arts in 1791, and assumed the vice presidency with Antonio Beccadelli in 1793–94. He played a role in trying to prevent Napoleonic forces from looting the artworks from suppressed monasteries and churches. After the Accademia Clementina was converted into the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1804, Fancelli joined but without a regular teaching appointment. In Bologna and in surrounding towns, he continued to paint altarpieces, portraits and scenic de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacopo Alessandro Calvi
Jacopo Alessandro Calvi (23 February 1740 – 15 May 1815) was an Italian painter and art critic who painted sacred and historical subjects in a late-Baroque style. Biography He was born in Bologna. He became deaf at the age of eight years, and due to his short stature, he was nicknamed ''il Sordino''. He trained with Giuseppe Varotti and later with Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti, from whom he also learned poetry. Among Calvi's writing are: *Verses and Prose in quarto about a series of paintings owned by the Marquis Filippo Hercolani. Bologna 1780. *''La Certosa di Bologna descritta nelle sue pitture''. Bologna 1793 by Luigi Crespi in 1772; with notes and corrections by Calvi. *''Notizie della vita e delle opere del Cav. Gian Francesco Barbieri, detto il Guercino da Cento''. Bologna 1808. *''Memorie della vita e delle opere di Francesco Raibolini, detto il Francia''. Bologna 1812. Calvi painted in the cloister of the church of San Michele in Bosco San Michele in Bosco is a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Guardassoni
Alessandro Guardassoni (13 December 1819 in Bologna – 1 March 1888 in Bologna) was an Italian painter. He mainly painted religious themes. He trained in the ''Accademia Pontificia di Belle Arti'' of Bologna, under Clemente Alberi. He collaborated with Cesare Mauro Trebbi. He painted some of the frescoes in the church of San Giuliano, Bologna. He was named to a professorship of the ''Accademia Felsinea''. Sources * Information from entry in Italian Wikipedia''Discorsi letti nella grand' aula della Pontificia accademia di belle arti in Bologna'' (1841). * 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Bologna 1819 births 1888 deaths Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna alumni 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
