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Stefano Volpi
Stefano Volpi or Volpe (c. 1585–1642) was an Italian painter from the early Baroque art period, mainly painting sacred subjects in Siena, Italy. According to Luigi Lanzi, he was either a pupil or collaborator with Rutilio Manetti. Volume 1, page 425. Among his works are paintings in the churches of , San Raimondo, San Sebastiano and |
Italian People
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Baroque Art
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 19th century. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as "late Baroque") and Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music, though Lutheran Baroque art developed in parts of Europe as well. The Baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep colour, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe. The style began at the start of the 17th century in Rome, then spread rapidly to France, northern Italy, Spain, and Portugal, then to Austria, southern Germany, and Russia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Lanzi
Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelangelo. Biography Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated as a priest. He entered the Order of the Jesuits, resided at Rome and in 1773 was appointed keeper of the galleries of Florence, where he became president of the Accademia della Crusca. He thereafter studied Italian painting and Etruscan antiquities and language. In the one field his labors are represented by his ''Storia Pittorica dell' Italia'', the first portion of which, containing the Florentine, Sienese, Roman and Neapolitan schools, appeared in 1792, the rest in 1796. In archaeology his great achievement was ''Saggio di lingua Etrusca'' (1789), followed by ''Saggio delle lingue d' Italia'' in 1806. In his 1806 memoir on the so-called Etruscan vases ''Dei vasi antichi dipinti volgarmente chiamati Etruschi'', Lanzi rightl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutilio Manetti
Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti (c. 1571 – 22 July 1639) was an Italian painter of late- Mannerism or proto- Baroque, active mainly in Siena. Biography He was influenced and/or taught by the local artists Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni. He is known to have collaborated with Raffaello Vanni, the son of Francesco. Among his masterpieces are his contributions to the Casino Mediceo, which he worked alongside Matteo Rosselli, Giovanni Lanfranco, and Cesare Dandini. One of his pupils or followers is Stefano Volpi. He is known for the following works in Siena or nearby towns: ''Story of St Catherine and Pope Gregory'' (1597; Palazzo Pubblico), ''Baptism of Christ'' (1600; church of San Giovannino in Pantaneto); a fresco cycle of the ''Story of St Roch'' (1605–1610; San Rocco alla Lupa), '' Pope Alexander I freed from prison by an Angel'' from San Giovanni Battista in Sant'Ansano in Greti; a ''Temptation of Saint Anthony'' (1620, Sant'Agostino); a ''Rest on the Flight to Eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Quirico E Giulitta, Siena
Santi Quirico e Giulitta, also called San Quirico in Castelvecchio is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic parish church located in Pian de Mantellini in the Terzo de Citta of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. History The church is ancient, putatively founded in the 11th century on the foundations of an earlier pagan temple. It stands now as mostly rebuilt starting in 1598. The portico, and parts of the apse and sacristy retain some of the ancient traces. The entry lunette was frescoed by Ventura Salimbeni. Above the arch over the presbytery was painted by Stefano Volpi; the imposing ''Martyrdom of Saints Quriaqos and Julietta'' in the apse was also painted by Salimbeni. The ''Prayer in the Garden'', ''Fall of the Rebel Angels'', ''Four prophets and four evangelists'' in the apse, were painted by Cristoforo Casolani. ''Mary meets Jesus'', ''Christ at the Column'' and ''Repose in Egypt'' by Francesco Vanni; ''Deposition'' by Alessandro Casolani, ''Christ carries the Cross'' by Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Raimondo (Siena)
San Raimondo, also called San Raimondo al Refugio, is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on the intersection of Via del Refugio and Via di Fiera Vecchia, in the Terzo of Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. The church is dedicated to St Raymond of Pennafort. History The church was commissioned in 1596 in the will of the Sienese noble Aurelio Chigi. The church was adjacent to a conservatory for children of impoverished nobility (nobili decaduto) and thus known as ''di Refugio''. In 1798, an earthquake caused some damage. During the 19th-century it served as a school for young women, called the Royal Conservatorio Riuniti, because it was joined to the adjacent Conservatory of Mary Magdalen. In 1660, Pope Alexander VII (a Chigi) commissioned from Benedetto Giovannelli the design and construction of a new white marble façade. The church facade has the correct superimposition of orders in the pilaster capitals: with doric, ionic, and finally corinthia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Sebastiano, Siena
San Sebastiano in Vallepiatta is an ancient church next to Piazzeta della Selva in Siena, Italy. It is located in the Contrada della Selva. Church construction began in 1492 and completed in 1656, under the patronage of the guild of weavers (Tessitori). The interior is frescoed by 16th century painters, depicting ''Dream of St Irene'' by Stefano Volpi, a ''Glory of St Sebastian'' and a ''Virtue and Angels'' by Sebastiano Folli, a ''Stories of St Sebastian'' by Pietro Sorri and Rutilio Manetti. On the main altar there is a ''Spoliation of Christ'' by Luigi Ademollo, and a 15th-century ''Crucifix'', which legend holds was donated to the ''Compagnia di San Giovanni Battista della Morte'' (Company of St John the Baptist of the Death) by St Bernard himself. Built in the shape of a Greek cross, it has a cupola with a cylindrical tambor. The design is attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Most of the brick façade has only a sliver of a cornice with architrave in travertine marble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilica Of San Domenico (Siena)
The Basilica of San Domenico, also known as Basilica Cateriniana, is a basilica church in Siena, Tuscany, Italy, one of the most important in the city. Overview The church was begun in 1226–1265, but was enlarged in the 14th century resulting in the Gothic appearance it has now. However, aspects of the Gothic structure were subsequently destroyed by fires in 1443, 1456 and 1531, and further damage later resulted from military occupation (1548–1552). It is a large edifice built, like many contemporary edifices of the mendicant orders, in bricks, with a lofty bell tower on the left (this was reduced in height after an earthquake in 1798). The interior is on the Egyptian cross plan with a huge nave covered by trusses and with a transept featuring high chapels. The church contains several relics of St. Catherine of Siena, whose family house is nearby. Interior Cappella delle Volte This is an old oratory of the Dominican nuns, connected to numerous episode of sanctity of Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1585 Births
Events January–June * January – The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar. * February – The Spanish seize Brussels. * April 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). *1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ... – Pope Sixtus V succeeds Pope Gregory XIII, as the 227th pope. * May 19 – Spain seizes English ships in Spanish ports, precipitating the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604). * June 11 – The magnitude 9.3 1585 Aleutian Islands earthquake unleashes a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean, killing many people in Hawaii and reportedly striking Japan. July–December * July 7 – The Treaty of Nemours forces King Henry III of France to capitulate to the demands of the Catholic League (French), Catholic League, triggering the French Wars of Religion, Eighth War of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1642 Deaths
Year 164 ( CLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macrinus and Celsus (or, less frequently, year 917 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 164 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 gives his daughter Lucilla in marriage to his co-emperor Lucius Verus. * Avidius Cassius, one of Lucius Verus' generals, crosses the Euphrates and invades Parthia. * Ctesiphon is captured by the Romans, but returns to the Parthians after the end of the war. * The Antonine Wall in Scotland is abandoned by the Romans. * Seleucia on the Tigris is destroyed. Births * Bruttia Crispina, Roman empress (d. 191) * Ge Xuan (or Xiaoxian), Chinese Taoist (d. 244) * Yu Fan, Chinese scholar and official (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From The Province Of Siena
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th-century Italian Painters
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 ( MDCI), to December 31, 1700 ( MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French ''Grand Siècle'' dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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