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Santi Stefano E Niccolao
Santi Stefano e Niccolao or Stefano e Nicolò is a Roman Catholic church located in Pescia, region of Tuscany, Italy. History A church at the site dates from about the 11th century, but construction of the church continued until the 1300s. The scenographic, baroque entry stairs were built by Agostino Cornacchini. The main 13th-century portal, with a pointed tympanum above, was refurbished by Pietro Bernardini with flanking baroque-style corinthian pilasters. The bell-tower dates to the 13th-century. In the 1st altar on the right is a venerated icon of the Virgin covering her faithful with her cape, with another depicting the Marriage of Cannae by Benedetto Orsi. The wooden 15th-century ''Madonna detta dell'Acquavino'' (Virgin of the Annunciation) sculpture has been attributed to Matteo Civitali. In the 2nd altar on the right is a ''Visitation'' (1644) by Agostino Ciampelli, a pupil of Santi di Tito. Ciampelli also painted the canvases flanking the altar with depictions of ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic
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Ercole Bazzicaluva
Ercole Bazzicaluva, also spelled ''Bezzicaluva'' or ''Bazzicaluve'' (active 1640), was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period. Biography He was born in Pisa. He was active in Florence from the first half of the 17th century. Dedicating his series of "few and fake countries" to the Grand Duke of Tuscany on Oct. 24th 1638, Bazzicaluva declared himself being originated “of Pisa"; but then, in the margins of the first of some military episodes of 1641, he is called "Florentine" (perhaps due to the fact that Pisa was part, for more than a century, of the State of Florence)As for his birth year, no one has ever succeeded in establishing it exactly, nor can we accept, even as an approximate one, the date of 1600 proposed by De Boni, because in 1638 he presented his engravings to the Grand Duke Ferdinando II of Tuscany. He defined them as "young first fruits", which "like unripe fruits wait to mature": what he would certainly not have said if he had already been 38 years old. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14th-century Roman Catholic Church Buildings In Italy
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Luigi Norsini
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Jacopo Vignali
Jacopo Vignali (September 5, 1592 – August 3, 1664) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. Biography Vignali was born in Pratovecchio, near Arezzo, and initially trained under Matteo Rosselli. He painted the ceiling fresco of the ''Love of the Fatherland'' and ''Jacob's dream'' for the Casa Buonarroti in Florence. In 1616 he entered the Accademia del Disegno in Florence. In the 1620s, he painted the ''Investiture of St Benedict'' for the ''Confraternità di San Benedetto Bianco''. In 1622–23 he also contributed to fresco cycles for the Medici at the ''Casino Mediceo di San Marco'' in Florence, and at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale. Among his pupils were Domenico Bettini, Romolo Panfi, Alessandro Rosi, and Carlo Dolci. File:Cyparissus mg 0159.jpg, ''Cyparissus In Greek mythology, Cyparissus or Kyparissos (Ancient Greek: Κυπάρισσος, "cypress") was a boy beloved by Apollo or in some versions by other deities. In the best-known version of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Paggi
Giovanni Battista Paggi (27 February 1554 – 12 March 1627) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and writer. His style spans the Late-Renaissance and early- Baroque. Life He was born in Genoa into the well-to-do family of his father Pellegrino. In an apparent dispute over pay, he is said to have mortally wounded a patron, and was forced to flee Genoa in 1579, and take refuge in Tuscany, in the towns of Aulla sul Magra, then Pisa, and finally to Florence. He joined the ''Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno'' in 1568. He shared a studio in Florence with Federico Zuccari. He maintained contact with his native town and returned to Genoa briefly in 1590 as a guest of the Doria family.Mary Newcome, Review of La Pittura in Liguria, artisti del primo seicento (monographs), In: The Burlington Magazine (1987) 12(1014), p. 602 Giovanni Battista Paggi became renowned among fellow artists throughout Europe when in 1590 he won his case against the Genoese Painters' guild and was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Bardelli
Alessandro Bardelli (1583–1633) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Uzzano near Pescia. He trained with the cavalier Francesco Currado and worked along Ludovico Cardi. Painted mainly in Pescia, including a fresco in the bishop's church. He painted a ''Archangel Raphael and Tobias returning sight to Tobias' father'' for the church of Santi Stefano e Niccolao in Pescia. He died in Bologna. References * 1583 births 1633 deaths People from Pescia 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Painters from Tuscany Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remigio Cantagallina
Remigio Cantagallina (c. 1582–1656) was an Italian etcher active in the Baroque period. He was born in Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, in the province of Arezzo. He is best known for his etchings of landscapes and religious subjects, influenced by Paul Bril. He was likely a pupil of the fellow-Florentine Giulio Parigi and Jacopo Ligozzi. In 1612–13 he traveled through the Dutch Republic, the Southern Netherlands, and France, which he documented in detailed drawings in pen and wash of buildings, houses, and cityscapes, complete with persons engaged at work or play in the foreground. His eye caught both the courtly celebrations and the peasant world. He produced detailed views of Brussels and Siena. Jacques Callot was reputed to be a pupil of Cantagallina, before the former moved to Rome to work with Antonio Tempesta. He also likely tutored Stefano della Bella. After 1648, he tutored in drawing the scientist and nature observer Francesco Redi. The engraver Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Della Bella
Stefano della Bella (17 May 1610 – 12 July 1664) was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects, including military and court scenes, landscapes, and lively genre scenes. He left 1052 prints, and several thousand drawings, but only one known painting. He was born and died in Florence, Italy. Early life in Florence Della Bella was born at Florence to a family of artists, and was apprenticed to a goldsmith,Chishholm 1911. but became an engraver working briefly under Orazio Vanni and then Cesare Dandini.Massar 1996. He studied etching under Remigio Cantagallina, who had also been the instructor of Jacques Callot.Massar 1968, p. 160. Della Bella's early prints are very similar to those of Callot. When he was seventeen years of age, he presented an etching depicting a banquet in the Palazzo Pitti to the young Giancarlo de' Medici following which della Bella would receive official commissions by the Medici family. In 1630, at the age of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the life of his period, featuring soldiers, clowns, drunkards, Gypsies, beggars, as well as court life. He also etched many religious and military images, and many prints featured extensive landscapes in their background. Life and training Callot was born and died in Nancy, the capital of Lorraine, now in France. He came from an important family (his father was master of ceremonies at the court of the Duke), and he often describes himself as having noble status in the inscriptions to his prints. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a goldsmith, but soon afterward travelled to Rome where he learned engraving from an expatri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Tiarini
Alessandro Tiarini (20 March 1577 – 8 February 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Biography Alessandro Tiarini was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt. Early on his family tried, unsuccessfully, to guide him towards becoming a cleric. He was the godson of painter Lavinia Fontana and initially apprenticed in Bologna under her father Prospero Fontana, and subsequently with Bartolomeo Cesi. He was not inducted into the Carracci Academy. Forced to flee from Bologna, due to what Malvasia and Amorini describe as a quarrel leading to the death of the other party, he moved to Florence, where he painted frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces (1599–1606) including an ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' (Pitti Palace). In Florence, he mainly worked under Domenico Passignano, but also Bernardino Poccetti and Jacopo da Empoli. He was lured back to Bologna and Reggio Emilia, by Ludovico Carracci. His ''Grievi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pescia
Pescia () is an Italian city in the province of Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy. It is located in a central zone between the cities Lucca and Florence, on the banks of the :it:Pescia (fiume), river of the same name. History Archaeological excavations have suggested that the Lombards built the first Human settlement, settlement here on the river banks. The name of the city comes in fact from the Lombardic language, Lombardic word ' (cognate to ' in German language, German), meaning "river". Lucca occupied and destroyed Pescia during the 13th century, but the town was quickly rebuilt. During the entire Middle Ages Florence and Lucca contended for the city, as the latter was located on the border between the two republics. In 1339, after almost ten years of war, Florence occupied it. The economy of the town was founded on mulberry cultivation and silkworm breeding. Heavily struck by the Black Death, Pescia overcame the demographic and economic depression which had ensued only at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
