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Santa Maria Delle Grazie, Brescia
The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Brescia is located on at the west end of Via Elia Capriolo, where it intersects with the Via delle Grazie. Built in the 16th century and remodeled in the 17th century, it still retains much of its artwork by major regional artists, including one of its three canvases by Moretto. The other two are now held at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo. The interior is richly decorated in Baroque fashion. Adjacent to the church is the ''Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie'', a neo-gothic work. History A church at this site, which lay outside the then city walls, was founded in the early 16th century by Hieronymite monks. Almost abandoned after the devastating siege of the city in 1512, the Hieronymites began constructing a new church in 1522. When the Hieronymites were suppressed in 1668, the Pope Clement IX, transferred the monastery to the Jesuits, who established a school. In 1797, the monastery was closed, but the church remained open. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. With a population of more than 200,000, it is the second largest city in the administrative region and the fourth largest in northwest Italy. The urban area of Brescia extends beyond the administrative city limits and has a population of 672,822, while over 1.5 million people live in its metropolitan area. The city is the administrative capital of the Province of Brescia, one of the largest in Italy, with over 1,200,000 inhabitants. Founded over 3,200 years ago, Brescia (in antiquity Brixia) has been an important regional centre since pre-Roman times. Its old town contains the best-preserved Roman public buildings in northern Italy and numerous monuments, among these the medieval castle, the Old and New cathedral, the Renaissance ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Rosa
Pietro Rosa (November 10, 1810 in Rome – August 15, 1891 in Rome) was an Italian architect and topographer. He studied the settlements of the ancient Roman countryside and carried out a systematic series of excavations on the Palatine Hill in Rome. One of Rosa's ancestors was Salvator Rosa (1615–1673); Pietro was an avid patriot for the defense of the city of Rome in 1849 during the Roman Republic. A student of Luigi Canina, Rosa was an avid scholar of Rome and Latium. From 1861 until 1870 he carried out his excavations on the Palatine with the patronage of the French emperor Napoleon III. In 1865, Rosa excavated the concrete core of the podium of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus. He also edited the ''Carta topografica del Lazio'', an archaeological plan that he designed between 1850 and 1870 on a scale of 1:20,000. The map, measuring 3.40 x 3.10m, charts the territory of Latium (modern Lazio) and the archaeological remains there. The work was completed only in certain areas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Gandino
Antonio Gandini (1565 – 17 July 1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was a pupil of the painter Paolo Veronese. In Brescia, his pupils were Ottavio Amigoni, Francesco Barbieri (''il Legnano''), and Ambrogio Besozzi Ambrogio Besozzi or ''Giovanni Ambrogio Besozzi'' (1648–1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Life He was born in Milan in 1648 where his first training was with Gioseffo Danedi, ''il Montalto''. He assisted Ciro Ferri in Rome w .... He worked alongside Giacomo Barucco. Gandini's son, Bernardino (died 1651), was also a painter. References * * Getty ULAN 1565 births 1630 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Brescia Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grazio Cossali
Grazio Cossali, sometimes called Orazio Cossali (1563 – December 4, 1629) was an Italian painter who worked in Brescia, Cremona, and Venice, active during the Mannerist or early Baroque periods. Biography Born in Orzinuovi, Province of Brescia, he is sometimes referred to as ''Cossale''. He is said to paint in the style of Palma il Giovane. In the Brescian churches of Santa Maria delle Grazie and Santa Maria dei Miracoli are paintings of the ''Adoration of the Magi'' and the ''Presentation of Mary in the Temple''. He also painted for the churches of San Lorenzo and San Francesco in Brescia. He painted a small ''Coronation of the Virgin'' (1590s) for the parish church of Quinzanello. . He painted a canvas on the history of |
Tiburzio Baldini
Fra Tiburzio Baldini (early 17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Bologna, and painted for the churches and convents at Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ..., including a '' Marriage of the Virgin with St. Joseph'' and the ''Murder of the Innocents'' in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. References * 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Bologna Painters from Brescia Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Maffei
Francesco Maffei (1605 – 2 July 1660) was an Italian painter, active in the Baroque style. Biography He probably trained in his birthplace of Vicenza with his father, and painted mostly in the towns of the Veneto (Venetian mainland). He died in Padua. He is noted for his somewhat provincial stylistic quirks, combining the decorative manner of baroque with visual distortions and nervous brush strokes. His figures often glimmer with imprecise borders; a style which would characterize also the ''pittura de tocco e di macchia'' (painting of touch and dots) of the following decades and century. Representatives of this manner came from diverse regions of Europe, and worked in diverse styles, including Ricci, Carpioni, Magnasco, and later Francesco Guardi. The canvases are often crowded with people and vigorous action (see ''War against the Fallen Angels'' at the Galleria Brera in Milan). He is known for paintings in ''Ca Rezzonico'' in Venice, the ''Palazzo del Podesta'' in V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Brentana
Simone Brentana (1656 – 9 June 1742 )) was an Italian painter of the period, active in . He was born in Venice to Domenico Brentana, but became orphaned by age nine. After a prolonged desultory education in various fields including music, he trained as a painter in Venice with , frequenting the , moving in 1685 to Verona, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callisto Piazza
280px, ''Beheading of the Baptist'', Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice Callisto Piazza (1500–1561) was an Italian painter. Biography Callisto, a member of the Piazza family of painters, was born in Lodi, Lombardy. In 1523 he was working in Brescia. His first dated and signed work is from the following year, and shows a typical Brescian style. This style was then emerging, and included artists such as Romanino and Moretto. Piazza shows influences from contemporaries such as Dosso Dossi and Ludovico Mazzolino of the Ferrarese school, as well as Giovanni Agostino da Lodi. In 1526–1529 Piazza worked in Val Camonica, at Erbanno, Borno, Breno, Esine and Cividate Camuno. In 1529 he returned to his native Lodi where he formed a workshop with his brothers Cesare and Scipione (died 1552). In 1538, while in Crema, he married the noblewoman Francesca Confalonieri. Later Callisto moved to Milan, where he received numerous commissions, such as the decoration of the San Girolamo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bortolo Schermini
Bortolo is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Bortolo Belotti (1877–1944), Italian politician * Bortolo d'Alvise Bortolo d'Alvise was a 16th-century Italian scientific instrument maker. He was a Venetian glassmaker who, thanks to the negotiations by Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574) with the Venetian Republic, was called to Florence F ..., 16th-century Italian scientific instrument maker * Bortolo Mutti (born 1954), Italian footballer and manager {{given name Italian given names Italian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moretto Da Brescia
Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (possibly 22 December 1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked. His dated works span the period from 1524 to 1554, but he was already described as a master in 1516. He was mainly a painter of altarpieces that tend towards sedateness, mostly for churches in and around Brescia, but also in Bergamo, Milan, Verona, and Asola; many remain in the churches they were painted for. Most are on canvas, but a number even of large ones are on wood panel. Only a handful of drawings survive. He also painted a few portraits, but these are more influential. A full-length '' Portrait of a Man'' in the National Gallery, London, dated 1526, seems to be the earliest Italian independent portrait at full length, all the more unexpected as the subject, though clearly a wealthy nobleman, shows no sign of being from a princely ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Maganza
Adorazione della Vergine con gli Angeli (1581) Alessandro Maganza (1556–1630) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, born and active in Vicenza, as well as in Venice. He likely trained with his father, Giovanni Battista Maganza, also a painter; as well as by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo. He is said to have spent the years 1572–76 in Venice. His first documented work, ''Virgin and Child with Four Evangelists'' (1580) was painted for the monastery built around the basilica and sanctuary of Monte Berico in Vicenza. Maganza also frescoed the inner cupola of Palladio's famous Villa Rotonda located near Vicenza, with allegorical figures in colour, again recalling the Paolo Veronese; he also executed large ceiling canvases in tempera for the South and West rooms. His style is described as derivative of Palma il Giovane. He had three sons who became painters: Giovanni Battista the younger, Marcantonio, and Girolamo. Works Vicenza * ''Madonna and Child with four Evangelist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Antonio Rotari
Pietro Antonio Rotari (30 September 1707 – 31 August 1762) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona, he led a peripatetic career, and died in Saint Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court. His portraits, mostly of women, are renowned for being beautiful and realistic. Rotari's works were generally limited to royal portraits held by notables such as emperors and court ladies. Biography He was initially a pupil of Antonio Balestra, but moved and lived in Venice from 1725 to 1727. He then joined the studio of Francesco Trevisani in Rome (1728–1732). Between 1731 and 1734, he worked with Francesco Solimena in Naples. He then returned then to Verona, where he started a studio. In 1750, he had moved to Vienna. In 1756, he was invited to Russia by the court of the Tsarina Elizabetta Petrovna. From there he moved to Dresden and to work with the court of Augustus III of Poland. He returned to St Petersburg to work with the court of Cathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
