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Dorigny
Dorigny may refer to: Surname * Michel Dorigny (1617-1663), French painter and engraver, father of Nicolas and Louis (Ludovico) Dorigny * Ludovico Dorigny (1654-1742), French painter and engraver * Nicolas Dorigny (1658-1746), French engraver Places * Dorigny, name of the place where the main campuses of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) are located. See Lausanne campus. ** Quartier Dorigny, one of the five areas of the main campus of the University of Lausanne www.unil.ch (page visited on 29 April 2013). served by the line 1 from UNIL-Dorigny station ** Grange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Dorigny
Michel Dorigny (1616 – 20 February 1665) was a French painter and engraver. Biography Dorigny was born in Saint-Quentin. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History he was a pupil of Georges Lallemand and Simon Vouet.Michel Dorigny in the He trained at the Académie de peinture et de sculpture and became the teacher and father to the painters Nicolas and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovico Dorigny
Ludovico Dorigny (1654 – 17 October 1742) was a French painter and engraver. Trained in his native country, he spent most of his life and career in Verona, Italy. Life and career Born Louis Dorigny into a family of Parisian artists, Dorigny was the grandson of painter Simon Vouet and the son of engraver Michel Dorigny. As a boy he apprenticed with the painter Charles Le Brun and in his teens was commissioned to create works for Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV of France. He adopted the italianized version of his name, Ludovico, during his early years in Italy and it is by that name that he is chiefly known. In 1671, at the age of 17, Dorigny came to Italy to study the Italian masters. He traveled back and forth between France and Italy over the next seven years, ultimately settling in Venice in 1678. He spent the next decade in that city where his works were in high demand by the nobility. In that city he also contributed works to the Chiesa degli Scalzi, painted the ceilin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lausanne Campus
The Lausanne campus or Dorigny university campus (French: ''campus lausannois'' or ''campus de Dorigny'') is a large area in Switzerland where the University of Lausanne (UNIL), the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and several other institutions are located. It is in Dorigny, towards the west of Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva. The site is about 2.2 kilometres wideUn campus en chantier jusqu'à 2016 {{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614192808/http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/e97cc3c6-1c03-11df-ac4e-251af3000cf2/ , date=14 June 2013 , www.letemps.ch, 5 June 2013 (page visited on 14 June 2013). and 31,000 people study and work there. It is served by [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Dorigny
Sir Nicolas Dorigny was a French engraver, the youngest son of Michel Dorigny, and was born in Paris in 1652 or 1658.Grove His education prepared him for the legal field, and he followed that profession until he was thirty years of age, when, as a result of deafness, he turned to the arts. He died in 1746. Career Dorigny visited Italy, where he remained for twenty-eight years. His first plates were executed with the point. He is better known, however, for his technique unifying the point and the graver, characteristic of his later productions. He took for his model the admirable works of Gérard Audran. Although he may not have equalled that celebrated artist, either in the style of his drawing, or in the picturesque effect of his light and shade, his prints will always be esteemed both for their merit as engravings and for the importance of the subjects which he chose. In 1711, he was invited to England by Queen Anne to engrave the Cartoons of Raphael at Hampton Court, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
