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Santa Maria In Organo, Verona
300px, Facade and bell tower of Santa Maria in Organo. Santa Maria in Organo is a Roman Catholic church in Verona, Northern Italy. History The church's origin dates to the 6th–8th century, at the time of the Ostrogoth and Lombard dominations in Italy. The original convent was destroyed in Napoleonic times. The church was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1117. It once faced a branch of the Adige River, now grounded. From the 14th century it was a parish depending from the Patriarchate of Aquileia, to which it belonged until its dissolution in 1756. In 1444 it was sold the Olivetan Benedictins, who held it until 1808. The monk Giovanni da Verona executed the tarsias of the wooden choir, and designed the bell tower, finished in 1533. In 1534 five bells were cast in the scale of F, the first peal in Italy. They are rung with Veronese bellringing art. Starting from 1547 a Romanesque-Gothic façade, in white marble, was begun, designed by Michele Sanmicheli; this has remained unfin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Sanmicheli
Michele Sanmicheli, sometimes also transcribed as Sammicheli, Sanmichele or Sammichele (Verona, 1484There is no certainty about the date of his birth. Vasari reports 1484, while architectural historian Giulio Sancassani, through a study of his father's will, concluded that the date of birth had to be some time after 1486 and no later than 1488. In , and . - Verona, 1559), was an Italy, Italian architect and urban planner who was a citizen of the Republic of Venice. After staying in Rome to complete his education studying the art of Donato Bramante, Bramante, Raphael, Jacopo Sansovino, Sansovino, and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Sangallo, he returned to Verona, where he received numerous prestigious commissions throughout his life. Hired by the Republic of Venice, Serenissima as a military architect, he designed numerous fortifications in the vast Venetian republic, thus ensuring a great reputation for himself. His works can be found in Venice, Verona, Bergamo, and Brescia, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (, ; ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Ancient Rome, Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with Perspective (graphical), perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes, and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. He also led a workshop that was the leading producer of Old master print, prints in Venice before 1500. Biography Youth and education Mantegna was born in Isola Mantegna, Isola di Carturo, Republic of Venice, Venetian Republic close to Padua. He was the second son of a carpenter, Biagio. At the age of 11, he became apprenticed to Paduan painter Francesco Squarcione. Squarcione, whose original profession was tailoring, appears to have had a remarkable enthusiasm for ancient art, and a faculty for acting. Like his famous c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trivulzio Madonna
The ''Trivulzio Madonna'' is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painting, Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, executed in 1497. It is housed in the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Pinacoteca of the Castello Sforzesco, Milan. The work shows the Madonna and Child enthroned and surrounded by four saints; from left to right they are Saints John the Baptist, Gregory the Great, Benedict of Nursia, Benedict and Jerome. The cherubim surrounding the Madonna are a reference to the Annunciation. The branches of two citrus trees frame the upper register of the composition. The two figures in the foreground are portrayed in order to be observed from a lower position. In the lower centre are three busts of chanting angels around an organ, an allusion the Olivetans, Olivetan church of Santa Maria in Organo at Verona, for which the panel was executed. The painting's current name comes from the Trivulzio Collection of Milan, to which it belonged from 1791 to 1935. A painting by Fili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Giordano
Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Early life and training Born in Naples, Giordano was the son of the painter Antonio Giordano. In around 1650 he was apprenticed to Giuseppe Ribera, Ribera on the recommendation of the List of viceroys of Naples, viceroy of Naples and his early work was heavily influenced by his teacher. Like Ribera, he painted many half-length figures of philosophers, either imaginary portraits of specific figures, or generic types. He acquired the nickname ''Luca fa presto'', which translates into "Luca paints quickly." His speed, in design as well as handiwork, and his versatility, which enabled him to imitate other painters deceptively, earned for him two other epithets, "The Thunderbolt" (''Fulmine'') and "The Proteus" of painting. Following a period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guercino
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino (), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner contrasts with the classical equilibrium of his later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style. Biography Giovanni Francesco Barbieri was born into a family of peasant farmers in Cento, a town in the Po Valley mid-way between Bologna and Ferrara.Mahon, 1937a Being cross-eyed, at an early age he acquired the nickname by which he is universally known, Guercino (a diminutive of the Italian noun , meaning 'squinter').Turner, 2003 Mainly self-taught, at the age of 16, he worked as apprentice in the shop of Benedetto Gennari, a painter of the Bolognese School. An early commission was for the decoration with frescoes (1615–1616) of Casa Pannini in Cento, where the naturalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Balestra
Antonio Balestra (12 August 1666 – 21 April 1740) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. Biography Born in Verona, he first apprenticed there with Giovanni Zeffio. By 1690 he moved to Venice, where he worked for three years under Antonio Bellucci, then moved to Bologna and then to paint in Carlo Maratta's workshop in Rome. In 1694, he won a prize from the Accademia di San Luca. He later painted both in Verona and Venice; although his influence was stronger in the mainland. His pupils in Verona were Pietro Rotari and Giambettino Cignaroli. In Venice, he painted for the churches of the I Gesuiti and San Zaccaria, and the Scuola della Carita. Pietro Longhi briefly worked under Balestra. In Venice, other pupils or painters he influenced, included Mariotti, Giuseppe Nogari, Mattia Bortoloni and Angelo Trevisani. He also influenced a young Giambattista Pittoni. Among his pupils from Verona were Domenico Pecchio, Domenico Bertini, and Carlo Salis. In painting, Balestra was st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Morone
280px, ''Samson and Delilah''. Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Francesco Morone (1471 – 16 May 1529) was an Italian painter, active in his native city of Verona in a Renaissance style. He was the son of the Veronese painter Domenico Morone. The art biographer Vasari praised his frescoes (1505-7) for the cupola of the sacristy in Santa Maria in Organo, Verona. He also painted the organ shutters in that church. Paolo Cavazzola was said to have been a pupil, but may have more aptly worked with one of his family members. Works *''Virgin and Child'', Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan *''Virgin and Child'', National Gallery, London *''Samson and Delilah'', Museo Poldi Pezzoli The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy. It is located near the Teatro alla Scala, on Via Manzoni 12. The museum was originated in the 19th century as a private collection of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli (1822–1879) and his m ..., Milan *Frescos at Santa Chiara Church, Verona References *C. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Morone
Domenico Morone ( 1442 – 1518) was an Italian painter from Verona, painting in an early Renaissance style. Much of his work has not survived, notably his fresco cycles. He was considered by Vasari to be second only to Liberale da Verona among artists in his town. His son Francesco Morone was also a prominent Veronese painter. His pupils included Michele da Verona and Girolamo dai Libri. Domenico Morone is known from a few panels, mainly depicting public festivals or tournaments with crowds of small figures. One of his masterpieces is the canvas celebrating the ''Cacciata dei Bonacolsi'' (1494) (or ''Expulsion of the Bonacolsi in 1328, scene of Piazza Sordello, Mantua'') in the Ducal Palace of Mantua. Two small cassone panels depicting the ''Rape of Sabine women'' dated to c.1490 and attributed to Morone were bought by the National Gallery, London in 1886 and remain in its collections. He was particularly prolific at the church of San Bernardino, Verona, painting a ''Mado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girolamo Savoldo
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia (c. 1480–1485 – after 1548), was an Italian High Renaissance painter active mostly in Venice, although he also worked in other cities in northern Italy. He is noted for his subtle use of color and chiaroscuro, and for the sober realism of his works, which are mostly religious subjects, with a few portraits. His portraits are given interest by their accessories or settings; "some even look like extracts from larger narratives". About 40 paintings by Savoldo are known in all, six of them portraits; only a handful of drawings by him are known. He was highly regarded in his own lifetime; several repetitions of works were commissioned from him, and copies of his work made by others. He slipped from general awareness, however, and many of his works were assigned to more famous artists, especially Giorgione, by the art trade. Awareness of his oeuvre revived in the 19th century, though the dating of many paintings remains contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazzo Veronese
Gazzo Veronese is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italy, Italian region Veneto, located about southwest of Venice and about south of Verona. Gazzo Veronese borders the following municipalities: Casaleone, Nogara, Ostiglia, Sanguinetto, Serravalle a Po, Sorgà, Sustinente and Villimpenta. The economy is mostly based on agriculture. History Gazzo's area was inhabited since the 4th millennium BC, but the modern settlement has Lombards, Lombard origin. Its name derives in fact from the Lombard ''gahagi'', meaning "wood". In Roman times it should be already populated, but the inhabitants fled with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. In the 9th century Benedictine monks of the Verona, Veronese church of Santa Maria in Organo dried the area. The fief was sold to Federico della Scala in 1307. The current ''comune'' was created in 1929 by the merger of Gazzo and Correzzo, the municipal set being moved to the ''frazione'' of Roncanova in the occasion. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria Maggiore (Gazzo)
Santa Maria Maggiore is a church in Gazzo Veronese, a village near Verona, in the Veneto region of northern Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b .... History The church is first mentioned in the 9th century; an inscription on the exterior dates its consecration to August 20, 846. In 1117, an earthquake destroyed the first church, which was rebuilt in Romanesque style. During restorations in 1938-1940, 9th century mosaics were discovered under the current pavement. Another extensive restoration was carried on in the 15th century. The exterior pinnacles date from this period. References 9th-century churches in Italy 12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Churches in the province of Verona Romanesque architecture in Veneto {{Veneto-RC-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
