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Academy Of St Luke
The Accademia di San Luca () is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first ''principe'' or director; the statutes were ratified in 1607. Other founders included Girolamo Muziano and Pietro Olivieri. The Academy was named for Luke the Evangelist, the patron saint of painters. From the late sixteenth century until it moved to its present location at the Palazzo Carpegna, it was based in an urban block by the Roman Forum and although these buildings no longer survive, the Academy church of Santi Luca e Martina, does. Designed by the Baroque architect, Pietro da Cortona, its main façade overlooks the Forum. History The Academy's predecessor was the ''Compagnia di San Luca'', a guild of painters and miniaturists, which met in the demolished church of S.Luca all'Esquilino, near the Basilica of S. Mary Major, and whose statutes and privi ... [...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] |
Urban VIII
Pope Urban VIII (; ; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts, commissioning works from artists like Gian Lorenzo Bernini and a reformer of Church missions. His papacy also covered 21 years of the Thirty Years' War. The massive debts incurred during his pontificate greatly weakened his successors, who were unable to maintain the papacy's longstanding political and military influence in Europe. He was also an opponent of Copernicanism and was involved in the Galileo affair, which saw the astronomer tried for heresy. He is the last pope to date to take the papal name ''Urban''. Biography Early life Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini was born in April 1568, the son of Antonio Barberini, a Florentine nobleman, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Angeletti
Pietro Angeletti (active, 1758–1786) was an Italian people, Italian painter in a Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style. Biography Born and died in Rome, he was a professor of painting at the Accademia di San Luca. He painted the ''Reconciliation of Venus and Minerva'' for the ceiling of a room in Villa Borghese that houses the Gianlorenzo Bernini, Bernini sculpture of ''Apollo and Daphne (Bernini), Apollo and Daphne''. For his work, he was paid 350 scudi. He painted two oval canvases depicting the ''Life of St Catherine of Siena'' for the church of Santa Caterina di Siena, Rome, Santa Caterina di Siena in Rome. He painted a ''Marriage of Cecilia and Valerian'' for the Cathedral of Cagliari. He also painted a portrait of the Archbishop of Fermo, Alessandro Borgia; and portraits of San Giuseppe da Copertino and of Alanus de Solminiac used by engravers. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Carpegna
The Accademia di San Luca () is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first ''principe'' or director; the statutes were ratified in 1607. Other founders included Girolamo Muziano and Pietro Olivieri. The Academy was named for Luke the Evangelist, the List of patron saints by occupation and activity, patron saint of painters. From the late sixteenth century until it moved to its present location at the Palazzo Carpegna, it was based in an urban block by the Roman Forum and although these buildings no longer survive, the Academy church of Santi Luca e Martina, does. Designed by the Baroque architect, Pietro da Cortona, its main façade overlooks the Forum. History The Academy's predecessor was the ''Compagnia di San Luca'', a guild of painters and illuminated manuscript, miniaturists, which met in the demolished church of S.Luca all'Esqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Via Dell'Impero
The Via dei Fori Imperiali (formerly ''Via dei Monti'', then ''Via dell'Impero'') is a road in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, that is in a straight line from the Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum. Its course takes it over parts of the Forum of Trajan, Forum of Augustus and Forum of Nerva, parts of which can be seen on both sides of the road. Since the 1990s, there has been a great deal of archaeological excavation on both sides of the road, as significant Imperial Roman relics remain to be found underneath it. History In the Roman regulatory plans of 1873, 1883 and 1909 it was planned to open a road between Piazza Venezia and the Colosseum, therefore on the route of the present Via dei Fori Imperiali. The project was consistent with the philosophy of urban planning of the time, which provided for the opening in the city centres of wide connecting roads created by gutting the ancient building fabric. A classic example is the transformation of Paris during the Second Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Benefial
Marco Benefial (25 April 1684 – 9 April 1764) "Marco Benefial (Getty Museum)" (history), The Getty Museum, 2006, webpage: GM-Benefial. was an Italian, proto- Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for his repudiation of 18th century decorative Rococo styles pre-eminent in the Rome dominated by Carlo Maratta pupils. His paintings portrayed tangible human figures, with complex treatment of space, and luminous, warm colors. Along with the altarpieces and frescoes, he also painted many portraits. Because he partnered with some inferior artists who subsequently received credit, some of his paintings have been frequently misidentified. Life and work Marco Benefial was born in Rome in 1684, and died there in 1764. ''Rest of the Holy Family'' Musée des Beaux-Arts Carcassonne When at the age of 19 years, one of his paintings, an altarpiece with ''Apotheosis of San Filippo Neri'', was rejected for exhibition at the yearly Pantheon show in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Bellori
Giovanni Pietro Bellori (15 January 1613 – 19 February 1696), also known as Giovan Pietro Bellori or Gian Pietro Bellori, was an Italian art theorist, painter and antiquarian, who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Artists'', considered the seventeenth-century equivalent to Vasari's '' Vite''. His ''Vite de' Pittori, Scultori et Architetti Moderni'', published in 1672, was influential in consolidating and promoting the theoretical case for classical idealism in art. As an art historical biographer, he favoured classicising artists rather than Baroque artists to the extent of omitting some of the key artistic figures of 17th-century art altogether. Biography Bellori was born in Rome on 15 January 1613, the son of Giacomo, a farmer. He was reared and educated by his maternal uncle, Francesco Angeloni, who was an antiquarian, writer of comedies, dialogues and operas, a numismatist (''Historia Augusta'', 1641) and collector of art, antiquities and natural history (he had Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamboccianti
The ''Bamboccianti'' were genre painters active in Rome from about 1625 until the end of the seventeenth century. Most were Dutch and Flemish artists who brought existing traditions of depicting peasant subjects from sixteenth-century Netherlandish art with them to Italy, and generally created small cabinet paintings or etchings of the everyday life of the lower classes in Rome and its countryside.Haskell, pp. 132–134. Typical subjects include food and beverage sellers, farmers and milkmaids at work, soldiers at rest and play, and beggars, or, as Salvator Rosa lamented in the mid-seventeenth century, "rogues, cheats, pickpockets, bands of drunks and gluttons, scabby tobacconists, barbers, and other 'sordid' subjects."Levine, p. 569. Despite their lowly subject matter, the works found appreciation among elite collectors and fetched high prices. Artists Many of the artists associated with the Bamboccianti were members of the ''Bentvueghels'' (Dutch for 'birds of a feather'), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Sacchi
Andrea Sacchi (30 November 159921 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors Alessandro Algardi and François Duquesnoy, and the contemporary biographer Giovanni Bellori. Early training Sacchi was, for a long time, believed to have been born in Nettuno, a coastal town close to Rome, although current scholarship regards this as incorrect, instead suggesting that he was born in Rome. His father, Benedetto, was an undistinguished painter. According to the biographer Giovanni Pietro Bellori (who was also a great friend of Sacchi's), Andrea initially entered the studio of Cavalier d'Arpino. These are Bellori's words: Sacchi later entered Francesco Albani's workshop and spent most of his time in Rome where he eventually died. Much of his early career was helped by the regular patronage by Cardinal Antonio Barbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liceo Artistico Ripetta
The Liceo artistico Ripetta in Rome is located in via di Ripetta, in the Rione Campo Marzio. History The school has its roots in the 15th century, when Pope Sixtus IV granted the Oratory of St. Luke; in 1577, under Pope Gregory XIII, the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, now Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma was founded. In the following two centuries the seats multiplied, until in 1845 the Istituto delle Belle Arti was born under the papacy of Pope Gregory XVI; the aim was to gather the art students in one location. The building intended to house the institute was the Palazzo Camerale in via di Ripetta, designed and built for this purpose by the architect Pietro Camporese the Younger. The palace is commonly referred as the "horseshoe", due to its hemicycle-shaped facade. After the capture of Rome, both the building and the institute came under the jurisdiction of the Italian state; in 1923 it became a liceo artistico, although not didactically autonomous as it was connecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Via Di Ripetta
Via di Ripetta, also called Via Ripetta, is a street in the historic centre of Rome (Italy), in the Rioni of Rome, rione Campo Marzio, that links Piazza del Popolo to Via del Clementino and, with other toponyms (Via della Scrofa, Via della Dogana Vecchia), reaches the church of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, on the back of Piazza Sant'Eustachio and close to the Pantheon, Rome, Pantheon. It is part of the complex of streets known as Tridente, Rome, Tridente. History The street boasts very ancient origins: in fact it retraces a former road map dating back to the 1st century BC. At the beginning of the 16th century the street was adapted by Pope Leo X, from which it took the name of ''Via Leonina''. The street took the present name in 1704, when the ''Porto di Ripetta'' was built: the river harbour was called ''ripetta'' ("little bank") in order to distinguish it from the ''Porto di Ripa Grande'' in Trastevere. Via di Ripetta is mentioned in the novel "The Late Mattia Pascal" by Luigi Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Camerale (Rome)
Palazzo camerale is a neoclassic building of Rome, in Via di Ripetta 218, the seat of the Liceo Artistico Ripetta. History The palace was designed and built in 1845 by order of the Apostolic Camera under Pope Gregory XVI as the new seat of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, since until that moment the lesson took place in various locations. The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia also moved in the same premises. After the capture of Rome, the building passed to the Italian state, as well as the Accademia: the latter refused to recognize itself as a national institute; therefore, since 1872, the school housed here was called ''Regio Istituto delle Belle Arti'' ("Royal Institute of Fine Arts"). In 1923 the institute became the Liceo Artistico Ripetta, despite not being didactically autonomous as it was connected to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
