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San Sebastiano, Acireale
San Sebastiano is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic collegiate basilica church located on Piazza Lionardo Vigo in central Acireale in the region of Sicily of Italy. The church became collegiate in 1924; and basilica in 1990. History and Description An oratory dedicated to Saint Sebastian, was founded by a fraternity, and had been erected during the 15th century at the present site where the church of Sant'Antonio di Padova now stands. Saint Sebastian was a common source of veneration in Italy as patron saint invoked for protection during the onslaught of the plague. When the city was spared from severe problems from the 1577 plague assault on the island, the patronage of the church grew, and the fraternity decided to build a larger church at this site. On the patron saints day on January 20, a procession of the ''ferculo'' with an icon of the saint is carried through town. Completed during 1608–1658, the church was also frescoed by Venerando Costanzo and Baldassare Grasso. The ...
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San Sebastiano can refer to: * Saint Sebastian in Italian * San Sebastiano Curone, a comune in the Italian region Piedmont * San Sebastiano da Po, a comune in the Italian region Piedmont * San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, a settlement destroyed by the 1944 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, but since rebuilt. * San Sebastiano (Biella), a church in Biella, Italy * San Sebastiano (Milan), a church in Milan, Italy * San Sebastiano (Mantua), a church in Mantua, Italy * San Sebastiano fuori le mura, a church in Rome, Italy * San Sebastiano al Palatino, a church in Rome, Italy * San Sebastiano, Venice The Chiesa di San Sebastiano ( en, Church of Saint Sebastian) is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church located in the Dorsoduro ''sestiere'' of the Italian city of Venice. The church houses a cycle of paintings by the artist Paolo Veronese, as ..., a church in Venice, Italy * San Sebastiano, Verona, a former church in Verona, Italy {{Disambig ...
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Angelo Bellofiore
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18th-century Roman Catholic Church Buildings In Italy
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Antonino Bonaccorsi
Antonino Bonaccorsi also called ''il Chiaro'' (June 1826, in Acireale, Sicily – 1897) was an Italian people, Italian painter. Galleria Zelantea
notes on arts in Acireale.


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He was born to a doctor, and studied in Catania under Giuseppe Gandolfi, a prominent portrait artist in Catania. At the age of 19 years he travelled to Rome, where he worked under Natale Carta and Francesco Coghetti. At the Academy of San Luca, which he attended, he was awarded a number of prizes. He was able to travel to Paris frequently. He was caught up in the Roman uprising of 1848–49 and aided in the defense of the brief Roman Republic (19th century), Roman Republic. During these battles, he acquired afflictions that troubled him the remainder of his life. From 1853 to 1859, he went into ...
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Vito D'Anna
Vito D'Anna (14 October 1718 – 13 October 1769) was an Italian painter, considered the most prominent painter of Palermitan rococo and one of the most important artists of Sicily. Biography He was the father of Alessandro D'Anna, the brother-in-law of Francesco Sozzi, and the son-in-law of Olivio Sozzi. He studied in Acireale under Pietro Paolo Vasta from 1736 to 1744, when he returned to Palermo. In Acireale, he had painted ''Portrait of the Provost Gambino''. Returning to Palermo, Vito married the daughter of the Catanese painter Olivio Sozzi. Sozzi helped arrange D'Anna to work with the circle of an aged Corrado Giaquinto in Rome. D'Anna frescoed a number of palaces, and the churches of San Sebastiano, San Matteo and del Salvatore in Palermo. Among his works were: his fresco of the ''Madonna dei Raccomandati'' in the church of the same name, his ''Nativity'' in the church della Grotta, ''Self-portrait'' in the Pinacoteca Zelantea. His nephew, Giuseppe Patania, was also a ...
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Francesco Patanè
Francesco Patanè (1 June 1902 – 21 June 1980) was an Italian painter, engraver, and sculptor. He was born in Acireale, and was active in his native Sicily. He painted altarpieces and frescoes for the church of San Sebastiano and the Cathedral of Acireale. He also painted in the nearby towns of Piedimonte Etneo Piedimonte Etneo ( Sicilian: ''Piemunti'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about northeast of Catania. Piedimonte Etneo borders the following mu ... and Aci San Filippo.Derived from Italian Wikipedia entry References {{DEFAULTSORT:Patanè Francesco 1902 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Sicily ...
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Alessandro D'Anna
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Pietro Paolo Vasta
Piero or Pietro Paolo Vasta (31 July 1697 - 28 November 1760) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in the east of his native Sicily. Biography He was born in Acireale. and initially trained with both the painters Giacinto Platania and Antonio Filocamo, who directed the fresco decoration in 1711 of the Cathedral of Acireale. At the age of 17 years, he moved to Rome, where he was mentored putatively by Luigi Garzi. Vasta was apparently admitted to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome; however, little of his work here is known. He returned to Acireale in 1731. One of his first works were frescoes for the church of San Sebastiano, where he could be compared to Venerando Costanzo, who was also painting frescoes contemporaneously. He would next add frescoes depicting scenes from the Old Testament to the Cathedral, here competing with Costanzo for the commission. He also painted a large ''Marriage at Cana'' canvas for the church. Among the churches in Acireale ...
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Gustave Doré
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( , , ; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, as a printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings, especially those illustrating classic books, including 241 illustrating the Bible. These achieved great international success, and he is the best-known artist in this printmaking technique, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image. In all he created some 10,000 illustrations, the most important of which were "duplicated in electrotype shells that were printed ... on cylinder presses", allowing very large print runs as steel engravings, "hypnotizing the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator", and being published simultaneously in many countries. The drawings given to ...
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Syracuse, Sicily
Syracuse ( ; it, Siracusa ; scn, Sarausa ), ; grc-att, wikt:Συράκουσαι, Συράκουσαι, Syrákousai, ; grc-dor, wikt:Συράκοσαι, Συράκοσαι, Syrā́kosai, ; grc-x-medieval, Συρακοῦσαι, Syrakoûsai, ; el, label=Modern Greek language, Modern Greek, Συρακούσες, Syrakoúses, . is a historic city on the Italy, Italian island of Sicily, the capital of the Italian province of Syracuse. The city is notable for its rich Greek and Roman history, Greek culture, culture, amphitheatres, architecture, and as the birthplace of the pre-eminent mathematician and engineer Archimedes. This 2,700-year-old city played a key role in ancient times, when it was one of the major powers of the Mediterranean world. Syracuse is located in the southeast corner of the island of Sicily, next to the Gulf of Syracuse beside the Ionian Sea. It is situated in a drastic rise of land with depths being close to the city offshore although the city itself is ...
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Sicilian Baroque
Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the , when it was part of the Spanish Empire. The style is recognisable not only by its typical Baroque curves and flourishes, but also by distinctive grinning masks and putti and a particular flamboyance that has given Sicily a unique architectural identity. The Sicilian Baroque style came to fruition during a major surge of rebuilding following the massive earthquake in 1693. Previously, the Baroque style had been used on the island in a naïve and parochial manner, having evolved from hybrid native architecture rather than being derived from the great Baroque architects of Rome. After the earthquake, local architects, many of them trained in Rome, were given plentiful opportunities to recreate the more sophisticated Baroque architecture that had become popular in mainland Italy; the work of these local architects – and the new genre of ...
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Baldassare Grasso
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