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Calandra
Calandra may refer to: People * Alexander Calandra (1911–2006), American physicist and educator * Davide Calandra (1856–1915), Italian sculptor and cabinet maker * Giovanni Battista Calandra (1586–), Italian mosaic artist * Giuliana Calandra (1936–2018), Italian actor and television journalist * John D. Calandra (1928–1986), American lawyer and politician * Paul Calandra (born 1970), Canadian politician * Peter Calandra, American composer and pianist * Saúl Calandra (1904–1973), Argentine footballer * Thom Calandra (born 1956), American journalist and investor * Tommy Calandra (1941-1998), American guitarist, songwriter, record producer * Mauricio and Giuseppe Calandra, Italian musicians forming the duo Calandra & Calandra Other uses * 8967 Calandra, a main belt asteroid * ''Calandra'' (beetle), a genus of weevils * Calandra lark The calandra lark (''Melanocorypha calandra'') or European calandra-lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterrane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davide Calandra
Davide Calandra (21 October 1856 – 8 September 1915) was an Italian sculptor and cabinet maker. Biography Davide Calandra was born in Turin into a wealthy family. His father, besides his professional activities of lawyer and hydraulic engineer, was an archaeologist and a well known collector of ancient weapons. Davide's eldest brother, the writer Edoardo Calandra, was a prominent author who wrote the novel ''La bufera'', an example of historical fiction. After attending the Liceo Calandra followed the art lectures of the Accademia Albertina and then joined as a volunteer the cavalry where he attained the military rank of '' Sottotenente'' (Sub-Lieutenant). In 1878 he worked with his father and his brother to an excavation of the Lombard archaeological site of Testona (Moncalieri). One of Calandra's first sculptures, ''Vigils of Penelope'', was displayed in 1880 at the Turin's Exhibition of Fine Arts. At the 1884 National Exhibition in Turin, he displayed three works: ''Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Calandra
Alexander Calandra (January 12, 1911 – March 8, 2006) was a scientist, educator, and author, perhaps best remembered for his short story, "Angels on a Pin (101 Ways to Use a Barometer)." Early life and education Calandra was born in Brooklyn, New York to Rosina Calandra (née Gagliano) and Lucio Calandra, immigrants from Sicily. Calandra received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College in 1935. He taught there while pursuing his PhD at NYU, where he received an MA in 1938. and a PhD in chemistry in 1940. Career Calandra was a visiting professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1948, acting as assistant to Enrico Fermi, at which time Calandra shifted the focus of his studies from chemistry to physics. During this period, Fermi was working on the nuclear bomb. Fermi brought Calandra to the attention of the Nobel laureate physicist Arthur Holly Compton, and when Compton moved to St. Louis to become chancellor of Washington University i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Calandra
Giovanni Battista Calandra (1586 - c. 1644) was an Italian mosaic artist in the Vatican. He was born at Vercelli in 1586. In the pontificate of Urban VIII, it was found that the dampness of St. Peter's materially affected canvases, and henceforth it was determined to remove the principal pictures, and to replace them with copies in mosaic, of which the first was executed by Calandra, after the ''St. Michael'' of Cesare D'Arpino. With this were ''The Four Doctors of the Church'', ''St. Peter'', ''St. Paul'', and others in the cupolas, after the cartoons of D'Arpino, Romanelli, Lanfranco, Sacchi, and Pellegrini. He also executed a ''Madonna'' after Raphael for the Christina, Queen of Sweden Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December ( New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his deat .... References * 1568 births 1640s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |