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Étienne Parrocel
Étienne Parrocel known as Le Romain (Avignon, 8 January 1696 - Rome, 26 August or 12 January 1775 or 1776) was a French people, French Painting, painter working in Rome in the eighteenth century. Biography The son of and Jeanne Marie Périer, he belonged to a prolific dynasty of artists who generated fourteen painters in six generations. He was a pupil of his Carthusians, Carthusian brother Gabriel Imbert (1666-1749). His uncle Pierre Parrocel, Pierre, who, after a period of study in France, in 1717 c., accompanied him to Rome to deepen his knowledge of painting with cousins Pierre Ignace Parrocel, Pierre Ignace and Joseph François Parrocel, Joseph François. Étienne stayed in Italy in Rome and for this reason he was called Le Romain. He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca, National Academy of San Luca in 1734. His first patron was Pierre Guérin de Tencin, bishop of Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, Embrun, who in 1724 commissioned a painting representing the ceremony of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilica Of Santa Maria Assunta, Alcamo
The Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta ("Our Lady's Assumption", also called mother church) is a 14th-century basilica in Alcamo, province of Trapani, Sicily, southern Italy. It is named after the Assumption of Mary, Assumption. History The first mother church of Alcamo, positioned on the north side of the quarter of San Vito, was first dedicated to Our Lady Source of Mercy (''Santa Maria Fonte della Misericordia'', 1200) and then to Our Lady with the Star (''Madonna della Stella'').Historia Alcami: il culto mariano e il sincretismo religioso This Church is still existing under the name of Santa Maria della Stella, though in a state of abandonment. In 1332, the inhabitants of quarter of San Vito, Alcamo, San Vito moved near the Castl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pompeo Aldrovandi
Pompeo Aldrovandi (23 September 1668 – 6 January 1752) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Biography Aldrovandi was born on 23 September 1668 in Bologna, then part of the Papal States, and studied law at the local university, being awarded a doctorate in canon and civil law in 1691. He entered the Roman Curia five years later and then steadily climbed the career ladder in the administration and was ordained priest in 1710, served as a ''chargé d'affaires'' in the nunciature in Spain from 1712 to 1716. On 5 October 1716 he became titular archbishop of Neocaesarea and was appointed Nuncio in Spain in 1717. However, the political troubles between the Holy See and the King of Spain led to his being recalled to Bologna, where he stayed until the death of Pope Clement XI. On 23 March 1729, he was made titular Patriarch of Jerusalem and was made Governor of Rome and later in 1733 he was appointed Vice-chamberlain of the Apostolic Camera. Aldrovandi was created C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melchior De Polignac
Melchior Cardinal de Polignac (11 October 1661 – 20 November 1742) was a French diplomat, Cardinal and Neo-Latin poet. Second son of Armand XVI, marquis de Polignac and Marquis Chalancon (1608–1692), Governor of Puy; and Jacqueline de Beauvoir -Grimoard-de Roure (1641–1721) (his third wife), Melchior de Polignac was born at Chateau de la Ronte, near Puy en Vélay, Lavoûte-sur-Loire, Haute-Loire, Auvergne. Education and early career A precocious child, he was taken by his uncle to Paris, and installed in the Jesuit Collège de Clermont (later named the Collège de Louis le Grand). At the appropriate time, he passed to the Collège de Harcourt, where thanks to the misdirected efforts of a teacher who was an enthusiast for Aristotle, Polignac adopted the opposite view and became a Cartesian. His thesis in Theology at the Sorbonne (1683) discussed the Kings of Judah who had destroyed the "high places". He was either prescient, or aware of discussion around Louis XIV which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista SpÃnola
Giovanni Battista Spinola (1681–1752) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal. He was born in Genoa at the Republic of Genoa, on 16 July 1681 and was the great-grandson of Cardinal Giambattista Spinola (1615–1704), and the nephew of Cardinal Giambattista SpÃnola (iuniore). Biography He was appointed secret valet of His Holiness in 1707 and governor of Benevento in 1712, then speaker of the Congregation of the Consulta and auditor of the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church in 1717. In 1719 he became governor of Rimini, then vice-legate in Ravenna and cleric of the Apostolic Chamber (1722), governor of Castelnuovo (1723) and finally Secretary of the Congregation of the Consulta (1724). Despite these prestigious roles, he did not receive sacred orders before 15 February 1728, conferred on him by Pope Benedict XIII, who appointed him the governor of Rome and Vice-Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church on 30 May 1728. He was governor of Rome until he became a cardinal in the consistory of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Georg Wille
Johann Georg Wille, or Jean Georges Wille (5 November 1715, near Biebertal – 5 April 1808, Paris) was a German-born copper engraver, who spent most of his life in France. He also worked as an art dealer. Life and work He was the eldest of seven children born to the miller, Johann Philipp Wille, and his wife, Anna Elisabeth née Zimmermann. He showed an early interest in art; drawing birds and the faces of his classmates. He also copied the illustrations from his father's Bible. Initially, he studied mathematics in Giessen, with the intent of attending a university, but his interest in art prevailed and he began taking lessons from a local portrait painter. This proved to be unsuccessful, so he learned engraving instead and worked for a gunsmith, who taught him how to decorate hunting rifles. In 1736, he began his traditional journeyman years, wandering through Frankfurt am Main, Worms and Straßburg, among many others, on his way to Paris. During his trip, he met the engr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaus Billy
Nicolaus is a masculine given name. It is a Latin, Greek and German form of Nicholas. Nicolaus may refer to: In science: * Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric theory of the Solar System * Nicolaus Otto (1832 – 1891), a German engineer In mathematics: * Nicolaus I Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician * Nicolaus II Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician * Nicolaus Rohlfs, an 18th-century German mathematics teacher who wrote astronomical calendars In literature: * Nicolaus Becker, a German lawyer and writer, the author of the '' Rheinlied'' * Nicolaus of Damascus, a Greek historical and philosophical writer who lived in the Augustan age In music: * Nicolaus Bruhns, a German composer * Nicolaus Zacharie, an Italian composer of the early Renaissance In Christianity: * Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, a German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church * Nicolaus Taurellus, a German philosopher and theologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The Annunciation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary
The Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (), also known as Sisters of the Annunciation or Annonciades, is an enclosed religious order of contemplation, contemplative nuns founded in honor of the Annunciation in 1501 at Bourges by Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, Joan de Valois, also known as Joan of France, daughter of King Louis XI of France, and wife of Louis, the Duke of Orléans, later King Louis XII of France. History Origins After Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, Joan of Valois husband Louis gained the throne of France in 1498, he obtained an annulment of their marriage from the Holy See, on the basis of their having been forced into the marriage by Joan's father. After being freed from her marriage, Joan retired to Bourges, where in 1501 she succeeded in founding a monastery in honor of the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Rule of Life she wrote for her community is entitled ''The Ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin'', the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Of France, Duchess Of Berry
Joan of France (; 23 April 1464 – 4 February 1505), sometimes called Joan the Lame (), was briefly Queen of France as wife of King Louis XII, in between the death of her brother, King Charles VIII, and the annulment of her marriage. After that, she retired to her domain, where she soon founded the monastic Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where she served as abbess. From this Order later sprang the religious congregation of the Apostolic Sisters of the Annunciation, founded in 1787 to teach the children of the poor. She was canonized on 28 May 1950. Family Joan was born on 23 April 1464 in the castle of Pierre de Brézé, a trusted supporter of her grandfather, King Charles VII of France, at Nogent-le-Roi in the County of Dreux. She was the second daughter of King Louis XI of France and of his second wife Charlotte of Savoy; her surviving siblings were King Charles VIII of France and Anne of France. Shortly after her birth, the king signed an agreemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria In Monticelli, Rome
Santa Maria in Monticelli is a church in the rione of Regola in Rome, sited on the street of the same name. A church was founded at the site in the 12th century and reconsecrated by Innocent II in 1143. It was known as ''Sancta Maria in Monticellis Arenulae de Urbe'', in a bull by Urban IV in 1264. Little remains of the medieval church, except for the bell-tower. The church was entirely reconstructed in 1716 by Matteo Sassi, on a commission by Clement XI, and in 1860 by Francesco Azzurri. The church is the home to the Curia Generalizia dei Padri Dottrinari. The church contains a baroque fresco of the Flagellation attributed to Antonio Carracci; a 13th-century painted wooden crucifix attributed to Pietro Cavallini; a ''Madonna and child with saints'' by Sebastiano Conca Sebastiano Conca (8 January 1680 – 1 September 1764) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spoleto
Spoleto (, also , , ; ) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines. It is south of Trevi, north of Terni, southeast of Perugia; southeast of Florence; and north of Rome. History Spoleto was situated on the eastern branch of the Via Flaminia, which forked into two roads at Narni and rejoined at , near Foligno. An ancient road also ran hence to Norcia, Nursia. The of the 1st century BC still exists. The forum lies under today's marketplace. Located at the head of a large, broad valley, surrounded by mountains, Spoleto has long occupied a strategic geographical position. It appears to have been an important town to the original Umbri tribes, who built walls around their settlement in the 5th century BC, some of which are visible today. The first historical mention of is the notice of the foundation of a colony there in 241 BC; and it was still, according to Cicero "": a Latin colony in 95 BC. After the Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
