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Santa Maria Assunta, Randazzo
Santa Maria Assunta is a Roman Catholic basilica church located in Randazzo in the region of Sicily, Italy. History and Description A church at the site was initially built in the 13th century, according to an inscription found below the sacristy dated 1239. Different portions of the church are built in different styles. The oldest configuration is the Romanesque semicircular apses with a merlionated cornice along the roofline. Some of the tall narrow windows in the apse have been walled up. The church has a wide central nave and two aisles and a cruciform transept near the apse. Much of the construction used the black lava stones. The interior nave has a simple Renaissance style, recalling Brunelleschi churches in Florence, likely imposed by the Tuscan architect Andrea Calamech (1524-1589). The aisles have few windows on high, but they have elaborate sculpted romanesque and rounded portals with braided 3/4 columns. The nave ceiling was frescoed with scenes from the life of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randazzo Santa Marina
Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. Randazzo ( scn, Rannazzu) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It is situated at the northern foot of Mount Etna, c. northwest of Catania. It is the nearest town to the summit of Etna, and is one of the points from which the ascent may be made. History In the 13th century the town had its own army, which fought in favor of the king against the rebels. In 1210 King Frederick II of Hohenstaufen and his young wife Constance of Aragon sheltered at Randazzo to escape the terrible plague which raged in Palermo. Randazzo became one of the most densely populated towns in the island, after Palermo and Messina. The town was also divided into three main districts: the Greeks lived in St. Nicola's quarter, the Latins in St. Mary's and the Lombards in St. Martin's. Randazzo was the scene of important action during the latter phases of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, during World War II. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Tancredi
Filippo Tancredi (1655–1722) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Messina to a minor painter and his mother, who was sister of the painter Filippo Giannetto. Volumes 3-4, ''Memoria di Pittori Messinesi'' by Giuseppe Grossi Cacopardi, (1823), page 97. 1823 He trained some time in , and afterwards visited , where he entered the school of Carlo Maratta
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Francesco Paolo Finocchiaro
Francesco Paolo Finocchiaro (15 March 1868 – 26 April 1947) was an Italian painter, known mostly for his portraits. Biography He was born in Randazzo in the Sicily. He studied at the Istituto di Belle Arti di Napoli, under Domenico Morelli. He then spent five years in Rome, supporting himself by painting portraits. He did have a commission to paint a ''Baptism of Jesus'' for the Basilica church of Santa Maria Assunta in Randazzo. He made copies of a painting by Prospero Piatti found in the Duomo di Ferrara, and of an ''Enthroned Madonna'' by Pietro Vanni and other paintings. He traveled for some time to Ferrara and Paris. In the final years of the 19th-century and first few of the 20th, he moved to United States. In 1902, he married Florence Angel Manson. Their only son died prematurely. In the United States, he was able to find success. He painted multiple portraits, including those of Enrico Caruso, Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Ambassador des Planches. Returnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniele Monteleone
Daniele is an Hebrew male given name, the cognate of the English name Daniel. Danièle is a French female given name, an alternative spelling of Danielle. Men with the given name Daniele * Daniele Bracciali (born 1978), Italian tennis player * Daniele Callegarin (born 1982), Italian former cyclist * Daniele Colli (born 1982), Italian road racing cyclist * Daniele De Rossi (born 1983), Italian footballer * Daniele Giorgini (born 1984), Italian tennis player * Daniele Greco (born 1989), Italian triple jumper * Daniele Greco (footballer) (born 1988), Italian footballer * Daniele Luchetti (born 1960), Italian film director, screenwriter and actor * Daniele Manin (1804–1857), Italian patriot and politician * Daniele Martinelli (born 1982), Italian footballer * Daniele Russo (born 1985), Swiss footballer * Daniele Silvestri (born 1968), Italian singer and songwriter * Daniele Sommariva (born 1997), Italian footballer * Daniele Vargas, stage name of Italian film actor Daniele Pitani ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onofrio Gabrielli
Onofrio Gabrieli or Gabriello (April 2, 1619 – September 26, 1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography He was born in Gesso, near Messina, and had his initial studies in Messina under Antonio Alberti, who was nicknamed ''Barbalonga''. He then moved to Rome, where he worked in the studios of Nicolas Poussin and Pietro da Cortona. In 1641, he traveled to the Veneto (mainly Venice and Padua) to work with Domenico Maroli, established relationships with the Borromeo family in Padua and returned, in 1650, to Messina. In 1678, he fled the city after participating in the Messina rebellion against the Spanish authorities, seeking refuge initially in France and then in Padua, Mantua, and Ancona. Pardoned, he returned to Messina in 1701. He died in 1706, in Gesso. Many of his paintings in Messina were destroyed by the earthquakes of 1783 and 1908. Only his ''Madonna del Soccorso'' remains presently in the Museo Regionale. In Milazzo, he painted in the churches of San G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Caniglia
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Giuseppe Velasques
Giuseppe Velasquez, Velasques or Velasco (16 December 1750 – 7 February 1827) was an Italian painter, active in a Neoclassic style. Biography He was born at Palermo into Spanish family; his father was Fabiano Ungo de Velasco. At the age of 15, he changed his surname to that of the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. He studied painting initially under a former pupil of Sebastiano Conca, Gaetano Mercurio, who fared poorly as a painter. He moved to work under another local follower of Conca, Giuseppe Tresca, with whom he painted frescoes in a church in Castellamare. Returning to Palermo, he finally worked under the painter Gioacchino Martorana, who had trained in Rome under Marco Benefial. Velazquez often collaborated in providing the decoration for the structures built by the architect Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia. He was patronized by the viceroy Caramanico, for whom he painted his portrait. In 1805 he became Director of the Accademia del Nudo in at the University of Palerm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Ittar
Stefano Ittar (March 15, 1724 - January 18, 1790) was a Polish-Italian architect. Biography Ittar was born in Owrucz (then in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now in Ukraine), where his father, a member of one of Italy's aristocratic families the Guidone de Hittar, had fled following a disagreement with the Grand Duke of Tuscany. While Ittar was still young his family moved to Rome, where under the patronage of Cardinal Alessandro Albani Ittar later studied architecture at this time influenced in Rome by the concepts of Francesco Borromini. After a brief period in Spain Ittar settled in Catania in 1765. Catania had largely recovered from the damage caused by the earthquake of 1693, largely due to the efforts of the city architect Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, who had rebuilt vast tracts of the city in Baroque style, such as the area around the Cathedral. It was at this time Ittar met Don Ignazio Paternò, Prince of Biscari, who at this time was reconstructing the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mullion
A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively. It is also often used as a division between double doors. When dividing adjacent window units its primary purpose is a rigid support to the glazing of the window. Its secondary purpose is to provide structural support to an arch or lintel above the window opening. Horizontal elements separating the head of a door from a window above are called transoms. History Stone mullions were used in Armenian, Saxon and Islamic architecture prior to the 10th century. They became a common and fashionable architectural feature across Europe in Romanesque architecture, with paired windows divided by a mullion, set beneath a single arch. The same structural form was used for open arcades as well as windows, and is found in galleries and cloisters. In Gothic architecture windows became larger and arrangements of multiple mullions and openings were used, both for structure and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Revival Architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly serious and learned admirers of the neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, intending to complement or even supersede the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws upon features of medieval examples, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, and hood moulds. By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic had become the preeminent architectural style in the Western world, only to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s. The Gothic Revival movement's roots are intertwined with philosophical movements associated with Catholicism and a re-awakening of high church or Anglo-Catholic belief concerned by the growth of religious nonconformism. Ultimately, the "Anglo-Catholicism" t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Calamech
Andrea Calamech (1524-1589) was an Italian sculptor and architect. Life Born in Carrara, he became a student and studio assistant of Bartolomeo Ammannati, who was himself heavily influenced by Michelangelo. For the first part of his life he worked as a sculptor in Tuscany, collaborating with Ammannati on the Fountain of Neptune in Florence. He was summoned to Messina in 1563 to oversee works on Messina Cathedral. After a short spell back in Florence (where he was one of the designers of the apparatus for Michelangelo's funeral ceremonies in 1564) and Carrara, he returned to Messina, where in 1567 he was made chief architect, city planner and sculptor to the city council, a role he fulfilled for over twenty years. He founded a Florentine art school in the city along with a dynasty of artists, working in Messina with his son Francesco and various relations such as his nephew Lazzaro Calamech and his son-in-law Rinaldo Bonanno. He died in Messina and is buried there in the churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedral Of Santa Maria (356552199)
A cathedral is a church that contains the ''cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches.New Standard Encyclopedia, 1998 by Standard Educational Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; page B-262c Church buildings embodying the functions of a cathedral first appeared in Italy, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa in the 4th century, but cathedrals did not become universal within the Western Catholic Church until the 12th century, by which time they had developed architectural forms, institutional structures, and legal identities distinct from parish churches, monastic churches, and episcopal residences. The cathedral is more important in the hierarchy than the church because it is from the cathedral that the bishop governs the area under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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