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Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was an Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. [ 1 ]
Magnificat has particularly championed and performed music by women composers Francesca Caccini, Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and has hosted a conference on Women and Music in Seventeenth Century Italy. Magnificat's annual concerts, recordings, and participation in music festivals have won audience and ...
Strozzi Institute was founded in 1985 by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. as an application of his research into a "somatic philosophy of learning".. In the 1970s Strozzi-Heckler and Robert K. Hall, M.D. developed The Lomi School of body oriented psychotherapy, influenced by the work of Fritz Perls, Ida Rolf, Randolph Stone, and Charan Singh. [2]
Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) Juan García de Zéspedes (c. 1619–1678) Joannes Baptista Dolar, also Janez Krstnik Dolar or Jan Křtitel Tolar (c. 1620–1673) Adam Drese (c. 1620–1701) Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1680) Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/1621–1687) Georg Arnold (1621–1676) Albertus ...
The palace, once known as the Palazzo delle Tre Porte for its three ground doorways, was a residence of the cadet branch of the Strozzi family; it was older and smaller than the grandiose Palazzo Strozzi. The palace houses the Cinema Odeon, designed (1920) by Marcello Piacentini, as well as the language school of the British Institute of Florence.
Napoleonic and current civic numbering The Strozzi coat of arms. This is a four-storey building arranged on five axes, of late 19th-century style which, in deference to the character of the square (and also because of its proximity to the Palazzo Strozzi, from which it is separated by a chiasso), flaunts a bugne facing in artificial stone throughout the height of the ground.
Count Peter Strozzi (1626–1664), Austrian general, killed by the Ottomans during the Siege of Novi Zrin (1664). It is unclear whether Bernardo Strozzi (c.1581–1644), a prominent and prolific Italian Baroque painter born and active mainly in Genoa and Venice, was a part of this immediate family.
The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Foundation of the Palazzo Strozzi) is the first example of an independent public-private cultural foundation in Italy, established in 2006. Is a cultural organisation in the Palazzo Strozzi , [ 1 ] Florence , Italy, that each year mounts exhibitions devoted to a different aspect of the arts , creating a dialogue ...