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Luca Signorelli
Luca Signorelli ( – 16 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, in Tuscany, who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescos of the ''Last Judgment'' (1499–1503) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece. In his early 40s he returned to live in Cortona, after working in Florence, Siena and Rome (1478–84, painting a now lost section of the Sistine Chapel). With an established reputation, he remained based in Cortona for the rest of his life, but often travelled to the cities of the region to fulfill commissions. He was probably trained by Piero della Francesca in Florence, as his cousin Giorgio Vasari wrote. Cortona hosted a major exhibition in 2023 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of his death. Biography He was born Luca d'Egidio di Ventura in Cortona, Tuscany (some sources call him Luca da Cortona). The precise date of his birth is uncertain, but birth dates between 1441 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Preaching Of The Antichrist
''The Preaching of the Antichrist'' () is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painting, Italian Renaissance painter Luca Signorelli. It is one of the scenes of what is considered his masterpiece, the cycle of frescoes with Book of Revelation, apocalyptic themes that decorate the Chapel of San Brizio in Orvieto Cathedral (1499–1504). Michelangelo was inspired for his ''The Last Judgment (Michelangelo), The Last Judgment'' by observing Signorelli's frescoes in Orvieto. In this scene the Antichrist is represented preaching in a way analogous to how the sermons of Jesus, Christ used to be represented. But it is appreciated that it is the devil who whispers what he has to tell. Instead of rays of golden light, they are blood red in color at the point where the Michael (archangel), Archangel Michael is heading towards Earth to fight the Antichrist. In the lower left corner are two dark-clad gentlemen; the man to the left is apparently a self-portrait, while the man to the right coul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinturicchio
Pinturicchio, or Pintoricchio (, ; born Bernardino di Betto; 1454–1513), also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian Renaissance painter. He acquired his nickname (meaning "little painter") because of his small stature and he used it to sign some of his artworks that were created during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."PINTURICCHIO." ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists''. ''Oxford Art Online''. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 February 2017. http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/benezit/B00142364 . Biography Early years Pinturicchio was born the son of Benedetto or Betto di Biagio, in Perugia. In his career, he may have trained under lesser-known Perugian painters such as Benedetto Bonfigli, Bonfigli and Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. According to Giorgio Vasari, Vasari, Pinturicchio was a paid assistant of Pietro Perugino, Perugino. The works of the Perugian Renaissance school are very similar and often paintings by Perugino, Pinturicchio, Lo S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Signorelli, Compianto, Cortona, Dettaglio 01
Luca or LUCA may refer to: People * Luca (masculine given name), including a list of people * Luca (feminine given name), including a list of people * Luca (surname), including a list of people Places * The ancient name of Lucca, an Etruscan city of Roman Italy Fictional characters * Luca Tsukino, in the 2019 film '' Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration'' * Luca Paguro, in the 2021 film ''Luca'' * Luca (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's), in the anime series * Luca (''Final Fantasy'' character) Arts and entertainment * Luca (''Final Fantasy'' setting), of the video games * Luca Family Singers, US * ''Luca'' (2019 film), in Indian Malayalam-language * ''Luca'' (2021 film), Disney/Pixar animation * A song by Brand New from the album ''The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me'' * Luca, a scrub jay from Angry Birds Stella and the animation Biology * ''Luca'' (genus), moths in the family Notodontidae * Last universal common ancestor, of all organisms on Earth Other uses * Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandolfo Petrucci
Pandolfo Petrucci (14 February 1452 – 21 May 1512) was a ruler of the Italian Republic of Siena during the Renaissance. Biography Petrucci was born and raised in Siena, into an aristocratic family of wealthy merchants. When Petrucci was still a child, in 1456, his family was forced into exile due to his uncle, Antonio Petrucci, being involved in a failed conspiracy against the Republic of Siena. The family moved to Pisa. In 1480 the presence in Tuscany of the army of Duke Alfonso of Calabria allowed the exiles to return to the city. In 1481, he was admitted to the People's Council with his brothers Alessandro and Vittorio. In October 1482 he married Eufrasia Martinozzi. He joined his brother Vittorio in Paganico, where the family had property. He then moved to Montepulciano, before joining his brother Giacoppo in Pisa. By 1487, he had married his second wife, Aurelia Borghesi, daughter of Niccolo, one of the most important men in Siena. When the Noveschi returned to pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedict Of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia (; ; 2 March 480 – 21 March 547), often known as Saint Benedict, was a Great Church, Christian monk. He is famed in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and Old Catholic Churches. In 1964, Pope Paul VI declared Benedict a Patron saints of Europe , patron saint of Europe. Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Lazio , Subiaco in present-day Lazio, Italy (about to the east of Rome), before moving southeast to Monte Cassino in the mountains of central Italy. The present-day Order of Saint Benedict emerged later and, moreover, is not an religious order , "order" as the term is commonly understood, but a confederation of autonomous Congregation (group of houses) , congregations. Benedict's main achievement, his ''Rule of Saint Benedict'', contains a set of Decree (canon law), rules for his monks to follow. Heavily influenced by the writings of John Cassian ( – ), it shows st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Oliveto Maggiore
The Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore is a large Benedictine monastery in the Italian region of Tuscany, 10 km south of Asciano. Its buildings, which are mostly of red brick, are conspicuous against the grey clayey and sandy soil—the ''Crete senesi'' which give this area of Tuscany its name. It is a territorial abbey whose abbot functions as the ordinary of the land within the abbey's possession, even though he is not consecrated as a bishop. It is the mother-house of the Olivetans and the monastery later took the name of ''Monte Oliveto Maggiore'' ("the greater") to distinguish it from successive foundations at Florence, San Gimignano, Naples and elsewhere. History It was founded in 1313 by Bernardo Tolomei, a jurist from a prominent aristocratic family of Siena. In 1319 or 1320 it was approved by Bishop Guido Tarlati as ''Monte Oliveto'', the name being a reference to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, to honour Christ’s Passion. Construction of the monastery was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Platonism in the Renaissance, Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. His father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the ruler of the small but highly cultured city of Urbino. He died when Raphael was eleven, and Raphael seems to have played a role in managing the family workshop from this point. He probably trained in the workshop of Pietro Perugino, and was described as a fully trained "master" by 1500. He worked in or for several cities in north Italy until in 1508 he moved to Rome at the invitation of Pope Julius II, to work on the Apostolic Palace at Vatican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umbria
Umbria ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Cascata delle Marmore, Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the Tiber. It is the only landlocked region on the Italian Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula. The regional capital is Perugia. The region is characterized by hills, mountains, valleys and historical towns such as the university centre of Perugia, Assisi (a World Heritage Site associated with Francis of Assisi, St. Francis of Assisi), Terni, Norcia, Città di Castello, Gubbio, Spoleto, Orvieto, Todi, Castiglione del Lago, Narni, Amelia, Umbria, Amelia, Spello and other small cities. Geography Umbria is bordered by Tuscany to the west and the north, Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. Partly hilly and mountainous, and partly flat and fertile owing to the valley of the Tiber, its topography includes part of the central Apennine Mountains, Apennines, with the highest point in the region at Monte Vettore on the border of Marche, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Echo (; , ''Ēkhō'', "echo", from ἦχος (''ēchos''), "sound") was an Oread who resided on Cithaeron, Mount Cithaeron. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and often visited them on Earth. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs. Echo, by trying to protect Zeus (as he had ordered her to do), endured Hera's wrath, and Hera made her only able to speak the last words spoken to her. So when Echo met Narcissus (mythology), Narcissus and fell in love with him, she was unable to tell him how she felt and was forced to watch him as he fell in love with himself. Classical depiction ''Metamorphoses'' In ''Metamorphoses'' (8 AD), the poet Ovid tells of Juno (mythology), Juno (Hera in Greek mythology) and the jealousy she felt over her husband Jupiter (mythology), Jupiter's (Zeus in Greek mythology) many affairs. Though vigilant, whenever she was about to catch him, Echo distra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus (, , ) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa (regional unit), Larissa and Pieria (regional unit), Pieria, about southwest from Thessaloniki. Mount Olympus has 52 peaks and deep gorges. The highest peak, Mytikas ( ''Mýtikas''), meaning "nose", rises to and is the highest peak in Greece, and one of the highest peaks in Europe in terms of topographic prominence. In Greek mythology, Olympus is the home of the List of Greek deities, Greek gods, on Mytikas peak. The mountain has exceptional biodiversity and rich flora (plants), flora. It has been a National parks of Greece, National Park, the first in Greece, since 1938. It is also a Man and the Biosphere Programme, World Biosphere Reserve. Olympus remains the most popular hiking summit in Greece, as well as one of the most popular in Europe. Organized mountain refuges and var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan (god)
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Pan (; ) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, Pastoral#Pastoral music, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia (ancient region), Arcadia, he is also recognized as the god of fields, groves, wooded glens, and often affiliated with sex; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. In Religion in ancient Rome, Roman religion and myth, Pan was frequently identified with Faunus, a nature god who was the father of Bona Dea, sometimes identified as Fauna (goddess), Fauna; he was also closely associated with Silvanus (mythology), Silvanus, due to their similar relationships with woodlands, and Inuus, a vaguely-defined deity also sometimes identified with Faunus. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Pan became a significant figure in Romanticism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Ross
Janet Ann Ross (née Duff Gordon; 1842–1927) was an English historian, biographer, and Tuscany, Tuscan cookbook author. Early life Janet Duff Gordon was the daughter of Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, Alexander Duff-Gordon and Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon. Her father held a number of government positions, including Commissioner of Inland Revenue and her mother wrote the classic ''Letters from Egypt''. She had a brother, Maurice and a sister, Urania. She was the granddaughter of Sarah Austin (translator), Sarah Austin, a famous translator, and the influential legal philosopher John Austin (legal philosopher), John Austin. She grew up in a highly cultured atmosphere among England's leading intellectual and literary figures. Her parents' friends and regular visitors to her home included: William Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Thomas Macaulay, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Caroline Norton, Tom Taylor, and Thomas Carlyle. Janet's first years were spent at her family home at 8 Queen Squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
