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San Giorgio (Genoa Metro), a metro station on the Genoa Metro; Italian cruiser San Giorgio, an armored cruiser of the Regia Marina in the early 20th century; San Giorgio class amphibious transport dock, an Italian Navy amphibious landing ship; Viadotto Genova-San Giorgio, a viaduct in Genoa, Italy.
Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio [1] (died 14 March 1509) was an Italian canon lawyer and Cardinal. [2] Agostino Oldoino calls him the leading jurisconsult of his age. [3] Kenneth Pennington has called him one of the ‘last two great commentators on feudal law’.
Eusebio da San Giorgio or Eusebio di Jacopo di Cristoforo da San Giorgio (c. 1470 – c. 1550) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Biography [ edit ]
The coat of arms of the municipality of San Giorgio su Legnano. The earliest documented trace of the history of San Giorgio su Legnano, a municipality in the province of Milan in the Altomilanese, refers to an inscription engraved on some bricks dated 1393 where the word "Sotena," which is believed to be the original name of the San Giorgio community, is engraved.
Born in Milan, Sangiorgio studied at the city's Accademia di Brera.During his early career he worked for the Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano; later he received numerous commissions for large public sculptures in places including Turin (a Castor and Pollux for the Palazzo Reale), Milan, Brescia and Casale Monferrato (an equestrian portrait of Charles Albert of Piedmont-Sardinia).
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...
The Bank of Saint George (Italian: Casa delle compere e dei banchi di San Giorgio or informally as Ufficio di San Giorgio or Banco) [1] was a financial institution of the Republic of Genoa. It was founded on 23 April 1407 [2] to consolidate the public debt, which had been escalating due to the war with Venice for trading and financial dominance ...
The plaque commemorating the foundation of the Palazzo San Giorgio The project of the new public building, as recalled by a plaque affixed to the façade facing the city, was entrusted to Friar Oliverio, a monk from the Abbey of Sant'Andrea in Sestri Ponente , who had previously designed the extension to the sea of the Old Pier.