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Santa Maria La Nova
Santa Maria la Nova is a Renaissance style, now-deconsecrated, Roman Catholic church and monastery in central Naples. The church is located at the beginning of a side street directly across from the east side of the main post office, a few blocks south of the Church and Monastery of Santa Chiara. Today the adjacent monastery is a meeting site and hosts the Museo ARCA of modern religious art. History Since the early 13th century, a Franciscan monastery, named ''Santa Maria ad Palatium'' had existed nearby, but by 1268, was demolished in order for Charles of Anjou decided to build his Castel Nuovo (new castle), or Maschio Angioino. By 1279, the Friars were granted this site to build a new church, hence ''la Nova''. Initially constructed in Gothic style, the building was battered by Naple's frequent earthquakes but also suffered gravely from an explosion originating from Castel Sant'Elmo on December 13, 1587. This last episode prompted reconstruction in 1596-1599, as announced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiaia
Chiaia (, ) is an affluent neighbourhood on the seafront in Naples, Italy, bounded by Piazza Vittoria on the east and Mergellina on the west. Chiaia is one of the wealthiest districts in Naples, and many luxury brands have shops on its main street. It is also home to a business school and a medical school, as well as other public schools. A prominent landmark in Chiaia is the large public park known as the Villa Comunale. It was initially developed in the late 16th and early 17th centuries as the Spanish rulers of Naples opened the city to the west of its historical boundaries. The Renaissance poet Laura Terracina was born and raised in Chiaia. Buildings and Structures in the zone *Castel dell'Ovo * Fontana del Sebeto * Palazzo Ravaschieri di Satriano * Santi Giovanni e Teresa * Pasquale a Chiaia * Sant'Orsola a Chiaia *Santa Caterina a Chiaia * Santa Maria Apparente * Santa Maria del Parto a Mergellina * Santa Maria della Neve in San Giuseppe * Santa Maria della Vittoria * Santa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrizio Santafede
Fabrizio Santafede or Fabrizio Santaféde (c. 1560–1623/28) was an Italian painter known for his altarpieces. He painted in a style that rejected the Mannerism popular in the Naples of his time and evident in the works of Francesco Curia. Life Born in Naples, he began as a pupil of his father, the painter Francesco Santafede,Giovan Battista Chiarini (a cura di), ''Delle notizie del bello, dell'antico, e del curioso della città di Napoli raccolte dal canonico Carlo Celano'', Vol. I, Napoli, Stamperia Floriana, 1856, p. 154 and later became a pupil of Marco Pino. He may have been one of the collaborators of Pino on the decoration of the church of S Giovanni Fiorentini in Naples.Antonella D’Autilia. "Santafede, Fabrizio." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 March 2017 He traveled extensively, including to Bologna, Florence, Rome, and Venice in his study of the great masters. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiesa Di Santa Maria La Nova (Napoli) - Interno 003
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Tommaso Malvito
Tommaso Malvito (died 1508) was an Italian sculptor, known particularly for his work on funerary monuments in Naples at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was born in Como (Lombardy) in the late 15th century, and was a pupil of the Milanese Pietro di Martino. From 1476 to 1483 he was in Marseille, where he worked under Francesco Laurana. Malvito is mentioned for the first time as an autonomous artist in 1484, in his Naples workshop which he held until in 1508, together with his son Giovanni Tommaso Malvito. He worked with painter Francesco da Milano on the tomb of the prioress of the local convent of S. Sebastiano. In the 1490s he worked on the Cathedral of Naples crypt (''Succorpo'', commissioned by Cardinal Oliviero Carafa Oliviero Carafa (10 March 1430 – 20 January 1511), in Latin Oliverius Carafa, was an Italian cardinal and diplomat of the Renaissance. Like the majority of his era's prelates, he displayed the lavish and conspicuous standard of living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaetano Vesivalle
Gaetano (anglicized ''Cajetan'') is an Italian masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. It is derived from the Latin ''Caietanus'', meaning "from ''Caieta''" (the modern Gaeta). The given name has been in use in Italy since medieval period, although it also remained in use as a byname indicating people from Gaeta, as in Thomas Cajetan or ''Gaetanus'' (1469–1534). The modern given name can be traced to Saint Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene (1480–1547) who was canonized in 1671. Other variants of the name exist in other Romance languages, the French form of the name is ''Gaëtan, Gaétan'', the Portuguese form is ''Caetano'', and the Spanish form is ''Cayetano''. The feminine form is ''Gaetana'' (also ''Caetana'' and ''Cayetana''). People with the given name ''Gaetano'' Clergy and religious figures * Pope Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini), Pope from 1277–1280 * Thomas Cajetan (Tomasso de Vio Cardinal Cajetan), (1469 – 1534), Italian philosopher, theol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Vaccaro
Lorenzo Vaccaro (1655 – 10 August 1706) was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor. He worked in a formalized restrained style. He was born in Naples, the son of a lawyer. He apprenticed with Cosimo Fanzago and Dionisio Lazzari. He was a close friend of Francesco Solimena. He was murdered at Torre del Greco in August 1706. His son Domenico Antonio Vaccaro was also a sculptor. The ceramic sculptor Giuseppe Laguidara Giuseppe Laguidara (16971742) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, active in his native Naples. He became a pupil of Lorenzo Vaccaro Lorenzo Vaccaro (1655 – 10 August 1706) was an Italian late- Baroque sculptor. He worked in a for ... was one of his pupils. . Sources * ''A Bozzetto by Lorenzo Vaccaro'' Revies by Andrew Ciechanowiecki, The Burlington Magazine (1979) p250-253 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaccaro, Lorenzo 1655 births 1706 deaths 17th-century Neapolitan people 17th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 18th-century Italian sculptor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Pastore
Luigi Pastore (Aversa, Province of Caserta, May 24, 1834 - January 19, 1913) was an Italian painter. Born to working-class parents, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, and painted mainly landscapes, historic and sacred subjects, or Neo-Pompeian themes. In 1885 at the Mostra Borbonica of Naples, he displayed ''The daughter of Titian'' and in 1859, he sent ''St. Anthony Abbot mourning on the remains of St Paul, the first hermit''. In 1874, he sent to the Promotrice partenopea, the canvas ''Il cadavere di Coligny'', and in 1879, ''La piccola operaia''. In later years, he returned to his native town of Aversa where he became an educator and sponsor of the arts. Among his historic canvases are ''Il pentimento di Fanfulla di Lodi'', ''La congiura di Marin Faliero'' He also painted (now restored) lateral walls of the church of Santi Filippo e Giacomo in Aversa, and frescoes in the Palazzo municipale of Frattamaggiore, including ''Il cardinale Fabrizio Ruffo libera Aversa dai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Papa
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Nicola Malinconico
Nicola Malinconico (16631721) was a Neapolitan painter of the late-Baroque. He is described as a follower of Luca Giordano, and painted mostly religious canvases. He painted the chapel altarpieces for the church of St Michele Arcangelo in Anacapri. He also painted still life paintings recalling work by Pietro Paolo Bonzi and Paolo Porpora and influenced by the Flemish still life painter David de Coninck. Around 1700, he was commissioned by bishop Oronzo Filomarino to decorate the cathedral of Gallipoli The Gallipoli peninsula (; tr, Gelibolu Yarımadası; grc, Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης, ) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles ... in the province of Lecce. He completed large canvases of ''Christ clearing the moneylenders from the temple'' in the counter-facade; ''Entry into Jerusalem'', ''Miracle of the lame'', ''Burial of Saint Agatha''. On the ceiling he p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aert Mytens
Aert Mijtens (c.1541–1602) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. Early life Mitjens was born in Brussels. He was the first known member of a family of painters named Mijtens or Mytens. He was the uncle of Isaac Mijtens (ca. 1602–1666), a portrait painter in The Hague and Daniel Mijtens (ca. 1590-ca. 1647), a painter at the English court. Career According to the early biographer Karel van Mander he travelled to Rome where he was called Rinaldo fiammingo and became a friend of the painter Hans Speckaert. He painted in the studio of another Flemish painter there called Anthoni Santvoort, who painted representations of Mary (''Maria Magior'') on copper. [Baidu] |
Tommaso Maurizio
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Cesare Smet
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