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Antoni
Antoni is a Catalan, Polish, and Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati .... As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton and Antonio. As a Polish given name it is a variant of the female names Antonia and Antonina. As a Slovene name it is a variant of the male names Anton, Antonij and Antonijo and the female name Antonija. As a surname it is derived from the Antonius root name. It may refer to: Given name * Antoni Brzeżańczyk, Polish football player and manager * Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect * Antoni Gutiérrez Díaz (1929–2006), Catalan physician and politician * Antoni Kenar, Polish sculptor * Antoni Lima, Catalan footballer * Antoni Łomnicki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonius
Antonius is a masculine given name, as well as a surname. Antonius is a Danish language, Danish, Dutch language, Dutch, Finnish language, Finnish, Latin language, Latin, Norwegian language, Norwegian, and Swedish language, Swedish name used in Greenland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, part of the Republic of Karelia, Estonia, Belgium, Netherlands, Suriname, South Africa, Namibia, and Indonesia, while Antoníus is an Icelandic language, Icelandic name used in Iceland. It is also the source of the English given name, personal name ''Anthony'', as well as a number of similar names in various European languages. Antonius is the nomen gentilicium, nomen of the ''Antonia gens, gens Antonia'', an important plebeian family of ancient Rome. Mark Antony, Marcus Antonius claimed that the gens was descended from Anton, a son of Hercules. Women of the family were called ''Antonia''. The Antonii produced a number of important generals and politicians, some of whom are listed below. For o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia (name)
Antonia, Antónia, Antônia, or Antonía is a feminine given name and a surname. It is of Roman origin, used as the name of women of the '' Antonius'' family. Its meaning is "priceless", "praiseworthy" and "beautiful". Antonia is a Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Maltese name used in many parts of the world. Antónia is a Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Polish feminine form of Anton, Antal and António used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Switzerland, Brazil, and Argentina, as well as parts of Romania. Antônia is a Portuguese feminine form of Antônio used in Malta, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Argentina,. Antonía is an Icelandic feminine form of Antonie used in Iceland. Antonia () is the feminine form of Antonios (Αντώνιος) and Antonis (Αντώνης) used mainly in Greece and Cyprus. Variants *Anthonia – Danish, Finnish, Swedish *Antoaneta – Bulgarian *Antoinette – French *Antonela – Albanian *Antonella – Danish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonina (name)
Antonina and Antoņina are feminine given names and nicknames. It is a Bulgarian, Latin, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian given name that is an alternate form of Antonia in use in Israel, Vietnam, Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. It is a Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish diminutive form of Antonia in use in Greenland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, parts of the Republic of Karelia, Germany, Italy, Northern Estonia, Austria, eastern Switzerland, and parts of Romania and Hungary. Antoņina is a Latvian alternate form of Antonia in use in Latvia. Notable people with this name include the following: Given name Arts * Antonina Houbraken (1686–1736), Dutch draughtswoman * Antonina Koptiaeva (1909–1991), Soviet novelist * Antonina Kymytval (1938–2015), R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964) is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's work focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, often portraying feminist ideals. She emphasizes the human body in her pieces, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and, through technological scanning, her brain. Antoni uses her body as a tool of creation or as the subject of her pieces, exploring intimacy between the spectator and the artist. Her work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. She describes her work by saying "I am interested in extreme acts that pull you in, as unconventional as they may be." She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery, NY, and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Early life and education Antoni was born January 19, 1964, in Freeport, Bahamas. In 1977, she moved to Florida for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Gaudi
Antoni is a Catalan, Polish, and Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia. As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton and Antonio. As a Polish given name it is a variant of the female names Antonia and Antonina. As a Slovene name it is a variant of the male names Anton, Antonij and Antonijo and the female name Antonija. As a surname it is derived from the Antonius root name. It may refer to: Given name * Antoni Brzeżańczyk, Polish football player and manager * Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect * Antoni Gutiérrez Díaz (1929–2006), Catalan physician and politician * Antoni Kenar, Polish sculptor * Antoni Lima, Catalan footballer * Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician * Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop * Antoni Niemczak, Polish long-distance runner * Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France * Antoni Popiel, Polish sculptor * Antoni Porowski, Polish-Canadian chef, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Porowski
Antoni Janusz Porowski (born March 14, 1984) is a Canadian television personality, cook, actor, model, and author. He is the food and wine expert on the Netflix series '' Queer Eye'' (2018–present). Early life Porowski was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Polish parents after they immigrated to Canada with his two older sisters. His father is a physician. He grew up speaking Polish, English and French. He and his parents moved to Glade Springs, West Virginia, when he was twelve years old; he resided between there and in Montreal throughout his high school years before returning to Montreal to complete his post-secondary education at Marianopolis College. After graduating from Concordia University with a bachelor's degree in psychology, Porowski moved to New York City to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, from which he graduated in 2011. He taught himself to cook as a college student. Career Upon moving to New York City, Porowski began auditioning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonija
Antonija is a Croatian, Latvian, Serbian and Slovene variant of the feminine given name Antonia. Notable people with the name include: * Antonija Blaće (born 1979), Croatian television presenter * Antonija Höffern (1803–1871), Slovenian noblewoman * Antonija Nađ (born 1986), Serbian sprint canoeist * Antonija Panda (born 1977), Serbian sprint canoeist * Antonija Sandrić (born 1988), Croatian basketball player *Antonija Šola (born 1979), Croatian actress and singer See also *Antonia (name) * Antonida Asonova * Antonije * Antonijo * Antonijs *Antonina (name) Antonina and Antoņina are feminine given names and nicknames. It is a Bulgarian, Latin, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian given name that is an alternate form of Antonia in use in Israel, Vietnam, Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, ... * Antoñita (other) * Antoniya Notes {{given name Croatian feminine given names Feminine given names Latvian feminine given names Serbian feminine gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Kenar
Antoni Kenar (born 23 October 1906, in Iwonicz, died 19 February 1959, in Zakopane) was a Polish sculptor, educator, and director of the Antoni Kenar School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. He was also a mountaineer. Biography He was born on 23 October 1906, in Iwonicz, to the family of Szymon and Franciszka née Jarocińska. He completed primary school in Iwonicz. In 1925, he graduated from the State School of Wood Industry in Zakopane, specializing as an ornamental sculptor. His teacher and mentor were Karol Stryjeński. He completed his studies at the sculpture department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1938, he returned to Zakopane. During the occupation, he stayed in Warsaw. In the autumn of 1941 and the spring of 1942, he lived in the village of Balice, in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, where he created wooden sculptures for the local church altar and a stone statue of Jesus Christ made from Pińczów stone, standing in front of the church. After the Warsaw upri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Radziwiłł
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł (; 13 June 1775 – 7 April 1833) was a Polish and Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian szlachta, noble, magnate, aristocrat, musician, and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nesvizh, Nieśwież and Olyka, Ołyka, as a scion of the Radziwiłł family he also held the honorific title of a ''Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, Reichsfürst'' of the Holy Roman Empire. Between 1815 and 1831 he acted as ''Duke-Governor'' (, ) of the Grand Duchy of Posen, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Prussia created out of Greater Poland, Greater Polish lands annexed in the Partitions of Poland. Early life Antoni Radziwiłł was born on 13 June 1775 in Vilnius to Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and Helena Radziwiłłowa, Helena Przeździecka. His family lived in Czernawczycy, then Nieborów Palace, and in the Radziwill Palace in Warsaw. Among his siblings was his elder brother, Prince Ludwik Nikolai Radziwiłł, 10th Ordinate of Klecki (who married Marianna J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennipher Antoni
Jennipher Antoni (born 6 April 1976) is a German actress. Life Jennipher (Jenny) Antoni is the daughter of Malte Antoni (1944–1998) and actress Carmen-Maja Antoni (born 1945). She studied Japanese and Russian at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After Frank Beyer employed her for her first film work, she received an ongoing series role in the popular German TV series '' Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht''. She studied at the Konrad Wolff ''Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen'' in Potsdam. At the same time, she worked in film and television with Martin Benrath, Robert Atzorn, Thekla Carola Wied, Jenny Gröllmann, and Jaecki Schwarz. By 2008, she was a member of the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam under the Lauffenbergs including Katharina Thalbach, Dieter Mann, Winfried Glatzeder, Angelica Domröse and Desiree Nick in leading roles on-stage. Since 2008, she has worked as a freelance actress. She speaks English, Russian, Italian, and Japanese. Films and TV *' (1992) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Słonimski
Antoni Słonimski (15 November 1895 – 4 July 1976) was a Polish poet, artist, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social justice. Słonimski was the grandson of Hayyim Selig Slonimski, the founder of " ha-Tsefirah"- the first Hebrew weekly with an emphasis on the sciences. His father, an ophthalmologist, converted to Christianity when he married a Catholic woman. Słonimski was born in Warsaw and baptized and raised as a Christian. Słonimski studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1919 he co-founded the '' Skamander'' group of experimental poets with Julian Tuwim and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. In 1924 he travelled to Palestine and Brasil and in 1932 to the Soviet Union. Słonimski spent the war years in exile in England and France, returning to Poland in 1951. He worked as contributor to popular periodicals: ''Nowa Kultura'' (1950–1962), ''Szpilki'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Wit
Antoni Wit (born 7 February 1944) is a Polish conductor, composer, lawyer and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Between 2002 and 2013, he served as the artistic director of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra. Life and career Wit was born in Kraków. He graduated from the Kraków conservatory (then called ''Państwowa Wyższa Szkola Muzyczna'') in 1967. He studied conducting under Henryk Czyż and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki. He went on to study in Paris under Nadia Boulanger (1967–68). In 1969, he also graduated in law from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In the years 1974–1977, Antoni Wit was the deputy artistic director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz and the lead conductor of the orchestra. In Bydgoszcz, he gained independence in his repertoire and the opportunity to perform the works he valued the most. In 1977, he returned to his hometown of Krakow, where he took over the management of the Polish Radio and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
