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Madonna Addolorata Al Torresino
The Madonna Addolorata al Torresino, also called the ''Santa Maria del Pianto'' or ''Santa Maria del Torresino'' is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. History An oratory was present at the site adjacent to a ''torresino'' (turret) of fortifications. By the 1450s, an icon of the Virgin, painted on a wall by an Antonio dal Santo, was said to fulfill miracles. The present church was built in 1718-1726 using designs by Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti, and completed by Sante Bonato. The church is presently still called “Torresino” due to the tower that crowns the dome, designed by Frigimelica. The statues and bas-relief of the Pieta on the façade were completed by Francesco Bonazza. In the atrium are statues depicting Faith and Religion by Tommaso Bonazza. Antonio Bonazza also sculpted (1741) the eight statues depicting Patience, Prudence, Virginity, Purity, Humility, Charity, Chastity, and Innocence. The first altar on the right has ...
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Roman Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies around the world, each overseen by one or more bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor of Saint Peter, upo ...
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Padua
Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 207,694 as of 2025. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000. Besides the Bacchiglione, the Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain. To the city's south west lies the Euganean Hills, Euganaean Hills, which feature in poems by Lucan, Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Padua has two UNESCO World Heritage List entries: its Botanical Garden of Padua, Botanical Garden, which is the world's oldest, and its 14th-century frescoes, situated in Padua's fourteenth-centu ...
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Veneto
Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the Northeast Italy, north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is the region's capital while Verona is the largest city. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire until the 5th century AD. Later, after a Feudalism, feudal period, it was part of the Republic of Venice until 1797. Venice ruled for centuries over one of the largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Venetian Province, former Republic was combined with Lombardy and re-annexed to the Austrian Empire as the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, until that was Italian unification, merged with the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence and of a Plebiscite of Veneto of 1866, plebiscite. Besides Italian language, Italian, most inhabitan ...
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Chiesa (Italian, 'church') may refer to: People with the surname *Andrea Chiesa (born 1966), Swiss Formula One racer * Anthony della Chiesa (1394–1459), Italian Dominican friar *Bruno della Chiesa (born 1962), European linguist *Deborah Chiesa (born 1996), Italian tennis player *Enrico Chiesa (born 1970), Italian footballer *Federico Chiesa (born 1997), Italian footballer, son of Enrico Chiesa *Gemma Sena Chiesa (1929–2024), Italian archaeologist *Giacomo della Chiesa (1854-1922), Italian bishop, became Pope Benedict XV *Giulietto Chiesa (1940-2020), Italian journalist and politician *Giulio Chiesa (1928-2010), Italian pole vaulter *Gordon Chiesa, American basketball coach *Guido Chiesa (born 1959), Italian director and screenwriter *Jeffrey S. Chiesa (born 1965), U.S. Senator; American lawyer; former Attorney General of New Jersey *Laura Chiesa (born 1971), Italian fencer *Marco Chiesa (born 1974), Swiss politician *Mario Chiesa (cyclist) (born 1966), Italian cyclist *Mario Ch ...
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Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti
Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti (10 January 1653 - 15 November 1732) was an Italian people, Italian architect, librettist, and poet. Biography Born in Padua to a father who had married into the noble Robert family, thus gaining a title of Count for his son. Gerolamo acquired a broad humanist education and from 1691 to 1720 was curator of the public library of Padua and admitted as member to its ''Accademia galileiana di scienze, lettere ed arti'' or ''Accademia dei Ricovrati''. In 1721, he moved to Modena. He was now active mainly as an architect, designing palaces and churches in Padua, Vicenza, and Modena. He worked on the ''Cappella del Santissimo'' at the Basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova and made designs for the churches of Santa Maria del Torresino and Santa Lucia, Padua, Santa Lucia at Padua. He also made designs for the church of San Gaetano, Vicenza, San Gaetano in Vicenza, and the palaces Palazzo Mussato, Padua, Mussato and Palazzo Buzzacarini, Buzzacarini in Padua; and th ...
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Sante Bonato
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Francesco Bonazza
Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name "Francis", is one of the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (other), several people * Francesco Barbaro (other), several people * Francesco Bernardi (other), several people *Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439-1501), Italian architect, engineer and painter *Francesco Zurolo (first half of the 15th century–1480), Italian feudal lord, baron and italian leader * Francesco Berni (1497–1536), Italian writer * Francesco Canova da Milano (1497–1543), Italian lutenist and composer * Francesco Primaticcio (1504–1570), Italian painter, architect, and sculptor * Francesco Albani (1578–1660), Italian painter * Francesco Borromini (1599–1667), Swiss sculptor and architect * Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), Italian composer * Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663), Italian mathematician and ...
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Antonio Bonazza
Antonio Bonazza (23 December 1698 – 12 January 1763) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo. He is considered one the greatest and most original Venetian sculptors of the 18th century; his activity was widespread, and his art distinguished by its vivid and picturesque naturalism. Biography Early career Antonio was the son of Giovanni Bonazza, a prominent sculptor active in Padua (1654–1736), and member of a large family of sculptors. He may have been influenced by Orazio Marinali of Vicenza. He is first recorded working in collaboration with his father and brothers Tommaso and Francesco on the marble reliefs depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds (1730) and the Adoration of the Magi (1732) in the Cappella del Rosario of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, which are characterized by tender naturalistic detail. Later he produced the eight slightly rigid stucco Virtues (1741) in the Madonna Addolorata al Torresino, Padua, and the fourteen marble reliefs of the Stations of t ...
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Giulio Cirello
Giulio Cirello (1633 in Padua – 1709) was an Italian painter. He trained under Luca Ferrari in Padua. He mainly painted sacred subjects in a late-Baroque style, though he was also valued as portraitist during his time. He painted an altarpiece for the church of San Giuseppe in Padua. He painted the walls of the Palazzo Vescovile or the Bishop's palace, adjacent to the Padua Cathedral; and two pieces for the church of La Rotonda in Rovigo. Along with the fellow Luca da Reggio pupil, Francesco Minorello Francesco Minorello or Menorelo (1624-1657) was an Italian people, Italian painter of the Baroque art, Baroque period active mainly in Padua. file:Duomo (Padua) - right arm of transept - lo Sposalizio della Vergine di Francesco Minorello.jpg, ''The ..., he painted two canvases, depicting ''St Agnes beaten by the Roman Prefect'' and ''St Martha as a Nun holding the cross sprays holy water on a Dragon'', for the church of Sant'Agnese in Padua.
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Guido-Ludovico De Vernansal
Guy-Louis Vernansal (1648-1729) was a French painter. He studied under Charles Le Brun and produced tapestry designs for the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories. He was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (; ) was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution. I ... in 1687, though he spent much of his life in Italy, particularly Rome and Padua. References 1648 births 1729 deaths 17th-century French painters 18th-century French painters Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture {{France-painter-stub ...
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Amleto Sartori
Amleto Sartori (3 November 1915 – 18 February 1962) was an Italian sculptor and poet from Padua most famous for his theater masks. First a sculptor, after the Second World War, Sartori began to fervently study the masks of Commedia dell'Arte which led him to a technique of modeling leather masks on wooden molds. His mask making techniques became famous, and his son Donato (1939 - 2016) later continued the work. Sartori became friends with Jacques Lecoq, who introduced him to the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, where he met Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi. This was a turning point in Sartori's career, and brought him into contact with other artists such as Ferruccio Soleri and Marcello Moretti for the construction of masks for their theater productions. In 1979 his son Donato Sartori founded the ''Centro maschere e strutture gestuali'' in Padua, while in 2004, after his death, the International Museum of the Masks of Amleto and Donato Sartori ''(Museo Internazionale della Maschera ...
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Giulio Cromer
Giulio Cromer or Croma or Cremer (1572, Ferrara Page 621–1632) was a German-Italian painter of the Mannerist period, active for many years in Ferrara, Italy. From an 1876 book: ''Giulio Cromer, Carlo Bononi a pupil of Bastaruolo, and Alfonso Rivarola or Chenda, were the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara.'' Page 175 Biography Born in 1572, but While he was born in Silesia or to a German family in Ferrara, he trained in that city under Domenico Mona. Known to have originally fled from a Silesian family, he was therefore given the nickname, the German – ''il Tedesco''. Jacopo Bambini was also a pupil of Mona. He died at Ferrara Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ... in 1632. In the latter city he painted a ''Preaching of St. Andrew''. for the church dedica ...
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