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Giuseppe Zocchi
Giuseppe Zocchi (; –1767) was an Italian painter and printmaker active in Florence and best known for his vedute of the city. Biography Born into a poor family, Zocchi began his training in his native Florence. The Marchese Andrea Gerini became his patron when he was very young, patronizing his further studies in Venice, Milan, Bologna, and Rome. The Marchese Andrea Gerini commissioned Zocchi to record all the famous Florentine landmarks, which he did in a series of drawings, now in New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. A number of engravers based their etchings on Zocchi's drawings into engravings, which were issued in two series in 1744. One series consists of 25 veduta, vedute under the title ''Scelta XXIV vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della citta di Firenze''; the other series consists of 50 vedute under the title ''Vedute delle ville e di altri luoghi della Toscana''. The latter was published by Giuseppe Allegrini and included engravings ...
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Giuseppe Zocchi - View Af The Arno In Florence - WGA25993
Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. The feminine form of the name is Giuseppa or Giuseppina. People with the given name include: :''Note: Some people are listed multiple times, in different sections.'' Artists and musicians * Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707), Italian composer * Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527–1593), Italian painter * Giuseppe Belli (singer) (1732–1760), Italian castrato singer * Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian poet * Giuseppe Botero (1815–1885), Italian writer * Giuseppe Cantersani, Italian engraver * Giuseppe Castiglione (1829–1908), Italian painter * Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit painter) (1688–1766), Italian Jesuit missionary and court painter in China * Giuseppe Giordani (1751–1798), Italian composer, mainly of opera * Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957), Italian writer and last Prince of Lampedusa * Giuseppe O ...
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Palazzo Serristori, Oltrarno
Palazzo Serristori is a Renaissance style palace located between Piazza Demidoff and the Lungarno Serristori in Oltrarno, in the neighborhood of San Niccolò of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. History The palace was initially constructed in 1520–1522, by the bishop of Bitetto, Lorenzo Serristori. The Serristori family is originally from the small Tuscan town of Figline, and the last name derives from Ser Ristoro, a local magistrate who is commemorated by a statue in this palace's entrance stairwell. The Serristori coat of arms (1515) of the lineage above the portal facing San Niccolò and was modified by Pope Leo X, who added three lilies to the three existing stars. The original plan of the palace had a classic U shape of clear Roman derivation, with a quadrangular inside courtyard that looked over an important garden through a loggia with three arched windows. Historians suppose, by certain analogies, that the architect was Giuliano da San Gallo, active at that time in F ...
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Italian Printmakers
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Painters From Florence
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or " support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a painter. In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate other materials, in single or multiple form, including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf, and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction. Paintings ca ...
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Italian Male Painters
Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Italian, regional variants of the Italian language ** Languages of Italy, languages and dialects spoken in Italy ** Italian culture, cultural features of Italy ** Italian cuisine, traditional foods ** Folklore of Italy, the folklore and urban legends of Italy ** Mythology of Italy, traditional religion and beliefs Other uses * Italian dressing, a vinaigrette-type salad dressing or marination * Italian or Italian-A, alternative names for the Ping-Pong virus, an extinct computer virus * ''Italien'' (magazine), pro-Fascist magazine in Germany between 1927 and 1944 See also * * * Italia (other) * Italic (other) * Italo (other) * The Italian (other) The Italian may refer to: * ''The Ital ...
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18th-century Italian Painters
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Re ...
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1767 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – The first annual volume of ''The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris'', produced by British Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gives navigators the means to find longitude at sea, using tables of lunar distance. * January 9 – William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront. * February 16 – On orders from head of state Pasquale Paoli of the newly independent Republic of Corsica, a contingent of about 200 Corsican soldiers begins an invasion of the small island of Capraia off of the coast of northern Italy and territory of the Republic of Genoa. By May 31, the island is conquered as its defenders surrender.George Renwick, ''Romantic Corsica: Wanderings in Napoleon's Isle'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910) p230 * February 19 ...
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1710s Births
Year 171 ( CLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Herennianus (or, less frequently, year 924 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 171 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Marcus Aurelius forms a new military command, the ''praetentura Italiae et Alpium''. Aquileia is relieved, and the Marcomanni are evicted from Roman territory. * Marcus Aurelius signs a peace treaty with the Quadi and the Sarmatian Iazyges. The Germanic tribes of the Hasdingi (Vandals) and the Lacringi become Roman allies. * Armenia and Mesopotamia become protectorates of the Roman Empire. * The Costoboci cross the Danube (Dacia) and ravage Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. They reach Eleusis, near Athens, and destroy the temple of the Eleusini ...
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Palazzo Rinuccini, Florence
The Palazzo Rinuccini is a palace located on Via Santo Spirito #39 in central Florence, region of Tuscany Italy. History The palace was designed around 1600 by the architect Ludovico Cardi, and adjacent site was built by Gherardo Silvani. Since the year 2003 the palace houses the Istituto Scolastico di Istruzione Superiore Liceo “Niccolò Machiavelli”. The palace once housed a prominent art gallery.Nuova guida; ovvero, Descrizione storico-artistico-critica della città e contorni di Firenze
by Federigo Fantozzi, page 720–730. Remaining are the frescoes by ;

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (''Carceri d'invenzione''). He was the father of Francesco Piranesi, Laura Piranesi and Pietro Piranesi. Biography Piranesi was born in Venice, in the parish of San Moisè, Venice, San Moisè, where he was baptised. His father was a stonemason. His brother Andrea introduced him to Latin literature and Classical antiquity, ancient Greco-Roman civilization, and later he was apprenticed under his uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, who was a leading architect in the ''Magistrato alle Acque'', the state organization responsible for engineering and restoring historical buildings. From 1740, he had an opportunity to work in Rome as a Drawing, draughtsman for Marco Foscarini, the Venetian ambassador (and future Doge of Venice) to the new Pope Bened ...
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Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence was a centre of Middle Ages, medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful House of Medici, Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Italian language, standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to ...
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Giuliano Giampiccoli
Giuliano Giampiccoli (1698 – 10 December 1759) was an Italian engraver of vedute and architectural renderings. Biography He was born in Belluno, son of Girolamo Giampiccoli (also sometimes written as Gianpiccoli, Iampicoli, Zampicoli, and Gampiccoli) and Livia Ricci, the sister of the painter Marco Ricci. His brother Marco Sebastiano (1706–1782) was also an engraver. He collaborated with a young Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in a series of etchings of classical ruins for the British Consul Joseph Smith. He also participated in a volume of engravings of villas in Tuscany after designs of Giuseppe Zocchi, with other collaborators including Giuseppe Benedetti, Filippo Morghen, Pietro Monaco, Joseph Wagner, Marcantonio Corsi, Giuseppe Filosi, Niccolo Mogalli, Philothee-François Duflos, Michele Marieschi, Vincenzo Franceschini, Johann Sebastien Müller, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – ...
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