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Baroque In Milan
Milanese Baroque refers to the dominant artistic style between the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century in the city. Due to the work of the House of Borromeo, Borromeo cardinals and its importance in the Italian domains, at first Spanish and then Austrian, Milan experienced a lively artistic season in which it assumed the role of the driving force behind Lombard Baroque. General features The Milanese Baroque period can be divided into three parts: the early 17th century, the second 17th century and the 18th century. The first 17th century began with the appointment of Federico Borromeo as bishop of Milan in 1595. in continuity with the work of his cousin Charles Borromeo, Charles: in this first phase the main exponents of Milanese painting were a trio, Giovanni Battista Crespi, Giovan Battista Crespi, known as Cerano, Giulio Cesare Procaccini and Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, known as Morazzone. In this first phase, the evolution of the new Baroque style followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milano Palazzoclerici Galleriaarazzi
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nearly 1.4 million, while its Metropolitan City of Milan, metropolitan city has 3.2 million residents. Within Europe, Milan is the fourth-most-populous List of urban areas in the European Union, urban area of the EU with 6.17 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan) is estimated between 7.5 million and 8.2 million, making it by far the List of metropolitan areas of Italy, largest metropolitan area in Italy and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is the economic capital of Italy, one of the economic capitals of Europe and a global centre for business, fashion and finance. Milan is reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Nuvolone
Giuseppe Nuvolone (1619–1703) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Milan, Brescia, and Cremona. Born in San Gimignano. He was the brother of the painter Carlo Francesco Nuvolone Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1608 or 1609 in Milan – 1661 or 1662 in Milan)Panfilo. He painted ''St Dominic resurrecting the dead'' for the church of San Domenico in Cremona. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nuvolone, Giuseppe 1619 births 1703 deaths[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Magnasco
Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light. Life Born in Genoa to a minor artist, Stefano Magnasco, he apprenticed with Valerio Castello, and finally with Filippo Abbiati (1640–1715) in Milan. Except for 1703–09 (or 1709–11)Wittkower 1993, p. 478 when working in Florence for the Grand Duke Cosimo III, Magnasco labored in Milan until 1735, when he returned to his native Genoa. Magnasco often collaborated with placing figures in the landscapes of Tavella and the ruins of Clemente Spera in Milan. Mature style After 1710, Magnasco excelled in producing small, hypochromatic canvases with eerie and gloomy landscapes and ruins, or crowded inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; 5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, and Francesco Guardi are considered the traditional Old Masters of that period. Successful from the beginning of his career, he has been described by Michael Levey as "the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, as well as its most able craftsman." Biography ''The Glory of St. Dominic'', 1723 Early life (1696–1726) Born in Venice, he was the youngest of six children of Domenico and Orsetta Tiepolo. His father was a small shipping merchant who belonged to a famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Croce
Francesco Croce (1696–1773) was an Italian baroque architect. entry on the architect. He was mainly active in , where he worked for the . Among other things, he designed the highest spire of the , the ''guglia del tiburio'' ("lantern spire"), on top of which the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Giuseppe Merlo
Carlo Giuseppe Merlo (5 November 1690 – 13 February 1760) was an Italian architect of the late-Baroque period; born in Milan, Italy. He was a pupil of Francesco Bianchi, and from 1708 to 1716 trained in the College of Engineers and Architects in Milan. In 1716, he designed the Oratory for the church of San Bernardino, Milan (completed 1749). In 1731, he designed the main altar for the Sanctuary of the ‘’Beata Vergine di Caravaggio’’. In 1740, he designed the Oratory of the Immacolata in ponte Vecchio di Magenta. Like most architects of Milan, he contributed to the continuing work for the Duomo. In 1738, he designed and directed the construction of the entryway stairs for Palazzo Litta in Milan. He helped rebuild the parochial church of ''San Giuliana'' in Caponago. In 1739, he helped designs for a project in the ''Monastery of the Visitazione'' in Milan. He helped design the façade for the parochial church of Sant'Andrea Apostolo of Pioltello. In conjuncti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rococo
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and ''trompe-l'œil'' frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama. It is often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement. The Rococo style began in France in the 1730s as a reaction against the more formal and geometric Louis XIV style. It was known as the "style Rocaille", or "Rocaille style". It soon spread to other parts of Europe, particularly northern Italy, Austria, southern Germany, Central Europe and Russia. It also came to influence other arts, particularly sculpture, furniture, silverware, glassware, painting, music, theatre, and literature. Although originally a secular style primarily used for interiors of private residences, the Rococo had a spiritual aspect to it which led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Rome, with the emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, clarity of structure, perfection and restrained emotion, as well as explicit appeal to the intellect. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the ''Discobolus'' Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art. A violent emphasis or a sudden acceleration of rhythmic movement would have destroyed those qualities of balance and completeness through which it retained until the present century its position of authority in the restricted repertoire of visual images. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accademia Di San Luca
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 priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionigi Bussola
Dionigi or Dionisio Bussola (1615 – 1687) was an Italian sculptor active mainly in Milan and its environs during the Baroque era. Bussola was probably born in Lombardy around 1615. He trained in Rome with Ercole Ferrata, then returned to Milan in 1645 to work on statuary for the cathedral there. He also contributed sculptural reliefs of the early life of Christ to the Certosa of Pavia. In addition to his work in the Cathedral and Certosa, Bussola is known for the statuary which he produced for the Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy. The embellishment of these ''sacri monti'' (literally “sacred mounts”) became especially popular during the Counter Reformation: they are typically hills dotted with shrines or chapels which contain polychrome tableaux (or sculptural groups) which depict biblical or other pious subjects. For nearly two decades (1666–1684), he worked in the ''sacri monti'' of Orta San Giulio, Varallo Sesia, Varese, and Domodossola. For the Sacro Monte o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Busca (painter)
Antonio Busca (1625–1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Lombardy. He was born in Milan. He trained with Ercole Procaccini, with whom he worked in Milan and Turin. During 1648–9, under Procaccini, Busca along with Johann Christoph Storer, il Moncalvo, and Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia helped decorate of the ''Chapel of the Crucifix'' in the church of San Marco in Milan. In 1650–51, he traveled to Rome to work with Giovanni Ghisolfi, and collaborated with him at the Sacro Monte of Varese. He was also active in the Sacro Monte di Orta. Being much afflicted with the gout, he appears to have been unable to undertake anything with vigor; he sank into a mannered repetition. References * See capella del crocefisso entry. 1625 births 1686 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Buzzi (17th-century Architect)
Carlo Buzzi (circa 1607–1658) was an Italian architect, active in Milan. There appear to be two prominent artists of the same name in Milan, overlapping somewhat, alive in the late 16th and early 17th century. The present Carlo Buzzi, whose name may also be written as Buti, Buzio, Butio, Albutio, or Albuzio, is mentioned in 1629, after the death of Fabio Mangone, as architect of the Duomo of Milan. At this time Francesco Maria Richini soon became architect for the cathedral. A sketch (1647) by Buzzi of a plan for the facade of the cathedral, etched by Cesare Bassani show a Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, a Germanic people **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Gothic alphabet, an alphabet used to write the Gothic language ** Gothic ( ... design with two flanking bell-towers; this work was not completed until the 19th century. A different Carlo Buzzi painted some of the Quadrone paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
