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Giuseppe Palazzotto
Giuseppe Palazzotto (1702 – 1764) was an Italian architect, active in Catania, Sicily. He used a Baroque style, and was employed extensively during the flurry of reconstruction, after the 1693 Sicily earthquake which nearly flattened his native city. Giuseppe helped design the church and monastery of San Giuliano, Santa Chiara, Sant'Agostino, Palazzo Zappala, Palazzo del Senato, and the Palazzo Biscari The Palazzo Paternò Castello di Biscari is a monumental private palace, still owned by a branch of the House of Paternò, located on Via Museo Biscari in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The highly decorative interiors are open for guided tours, a .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catania
Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, which is among the largest in Italy. It has important road and rail transport infrastructures, and hosts Catania Airport, the main airport of Sicily (fifth-largest in Italy). The city is located on Sicily's east coast, facing the Ionian Sea at the base of the active volcano Mount Etna. It is the capital of the 58-municipality province known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Italy. The population of the city proper is 297,517, while the population of the metropolitan city is 1,068,563. Catania was founded in the 8th century BC by Chalcidian Greeks in Magna Graecia. The city has weathered multiple geologic catastrophes: it was almost completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in 1169 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque Architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means to combat the Reformation and the Protestantism, Protestant church with a new architecture that inspired surprise and awe. It reached its peak in the High Baroque (1625–1675), when it was used in churches and palaces in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Bavaria and Austria. In the Late Baroque period (1675–1750), it reached as far as Russia, the Ottoman Baroque architecture, Ottoman Empire and the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas, Portuguese colonies in Latin America. In about 1730, an even more elaborately decorative variant called Rococo appeared and flourished in Central Europe. Baroque architects took the basic elements of Renaissance architecture, including domes and colonnades, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1693 Sicily Earthquake
The 1693 Sicily earthquake was a natural disaster that struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, then a territory part of the Crown of Aragon by the Kings of Spain Calabria and Malta, on 11 January at around 21:00 local time. This earthquake was preceded by a damaging foreshock on 9 January. The main quake had an estimated magnitude of 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, the most powerful in recorded Italian history, and a maximum intensity of XI (''Extreme'') on the Mercalli intensity scale, destroying at least 70 towns and cities, seriously affecting an area of and causing the death of about 60,000 people. The earthquake was followed by a number of tsunamis that devastated the coastal villages on the Ionian Sea and in the Straits of Messina. Almost two-thirds of the entire population of Catania were killed. The Epicenter, epicentre of the disaster was probably close to the coast, possibly offshore, although the exact position remains unknown. The extent and level of destruction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Giuliano, Catania
San Giuliano is a Roman Catholic church and attached convent located on Via Crocifero #36 of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It stands across from the Collegio dei Gesuiti (Jesuit college), whose church of San Francesco Borgia also faces Crociferi. Two blocks north on Crociferi is the baroque church of San Camillo de Lellis. History and description The church was erected at the site of a prior church that had been razed by the 1693 earthquake. It is dedicated the St Julian the Hospitaller. The present late-Baroque church was built between 1739 and 1751 using designs by Giuseppe Palazzotto and Vincenzo Caffarelli. The church has an elaborate convex facade. The upper story has windows shielded by a dense iron grate, these windows were used by the cloistered Benedictine nuns of the attached monastery to watch the splendid procession of the day of Sant'Agata as it passed by. The portal has an added shield of a tall metal fence. The facade pediment is broken and each pediment holds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Chiara, Catania
Santa Chiara is a Roman Catholic church located on Via Garibaldi #100 in the center of the city of Catania, Region of Sicily, Italy. The monastery located behind the church presently houses a gallery of modern art. History and description Nuns of the Clarissan order established themselves there in the 16th century, with a donation by Baron Antonio Paternò of his home and belongings, to which was added and endowment by Chiara Statella. The site was adapted into a convent in 1563, but nearly razed by the 1693 Sicily earthquake leading to reconstruction using designs by Giuseppe Palazzotto. The church and convent were completed by 1760. The three-story facade of the church on Via Garibaldi is small and unassuming. On the third floor a three arch loggia allowed the nuns to observe the yearly Procession of Sant'Agata which departed from Sant'Agata alla Fornace to the Cathedral of Catania. The interiors are more elaborate, with floors decorated with polychrome marble, and a painted and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Rita In Sant'Agostino, Catania
Santa Rita in San'Agostino, sometimes just called Sant'Agostino, is a Roman Catholic parish church and sanctuary, located on Via Vittorio Emanuele II #318, in Catania, region of Sicily, southern Italy. The church was formerly attached to an Augustinians, Augustinian convent, and known as Sant'Agostino. But in the 20th century was dedicated as a sanctuary to Santa Rita of Cascia. History and description Monastic followers of St Augustine putatively arrived to Eastern Sicily fleeing the Vandal Kingdom, Vandal invasion of North Africa in the late 5th century. Construction of a monastery and church in Catania is documented since 1209. Construction was endowed by the nobleman Ferdinando Guerriero, and the church was initially dedicated to San Giacomo (St James). However, in 1577 all the monks died from the plague, and the town elected to burn all the contents of the monastery. It was rebuilt in 1615 with designs putatively by Giuseppe Palazzotto. The monks rebuilt a monastery by 1637. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Biscari
The Palazzo Paternò Castello di Biscari is a monumental private palace, still owned by a branch of the House of Paternò, located on Via Museo Biscari in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The highly decorative interiors are open for guided tours, and used for social and cultural events. History and description After the devastations of the 1693 Sicily earthquake, the Prince of Biscari, Ignazio Paternò Castello, 3rd Prince of Biscari, obtained the permission to build this palace. At the time the building stood against the French king Charles V's walls of the town. After Ignazio's death in 1699, his son Vincenzo (1685-1749) and later his nephew Ignazio Paternò Castello (1714-1786), the fifth Prince of Biscari extended and completed the decoration. This latter prince complimented the work with a museum space to display his large collection of mainly archeologic and numismatic collections, now on display in the Museo Civico Castello Ursino. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1706 Births
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Monday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 26 ** War of Spanish Succession: Bavarian uprising of 1705–06, The uprising by Bavarians against the occupation of the Electorate of Bavaria by Habsburg monarchy, Austrian troops ends after 75 days, and ends the plans of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian, the Elector of Bavaria, to bring Bavaria under the rule of the House of Wittelsbach. ** Great Northern War – Battle of Grodno (1706), Battle of Grodno: A coalition of 34,000 Swedish and Polish troops besieges the then-Lithuanian city in the winter time, and clashes with 41,000 Russian and Saxon troops. After almost three months of fighting that lasts to April 10, Sweden takes control of the city, which is now located in Belarus. * February 6 – The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is incorporated by governor Don Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1764 Deaths
Events January–June * January 7 – The Siculicidium is carried out as hundreds of the Székelys, Székely minority in Transylvania are massacred by the Habsburg monarchy, Austrian Army at Madéfalva. * January 19 – John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons of Great Britain, for seditious libel. * February 15 – The settlement of St. Louis is established. * March 15 – The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrian sacred text, the ''Zend Avesta'', to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, ''Bibliothèque Royale'' in Paris, along with several other traditional texts. In 1771, he publishes the first European translation of the ''Zend Avesta''. * March 17 – Francisco Javier de la Torre arrives in Manila to become the new Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. * March 20 – After the British victory in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Catania
The term "the people" refers to the public or Common people, common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of Person, persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independence, independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
