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Giovanni Martinelli was an assiduous adept of the allegorical representation. In perfect harmony with the climate of fervent philosophical and moral debate practised by the local Academies, he owned a remarkable skill in rendering a captious symbolism in his figures.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 December 2024. Italian supercentenarian (1899–2017) Emma Morano Dame Grand Cross OMRI Morano in 1943 Born Emma Martina Luigia Morano (1899-11-29) 29 November 1899 Civiasco, Vercelli, Kingdom of Italy Died (2017-04-15) 15 April 2017 (aged 117 years, 137 days) Verbania, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy ...
Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper. The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white gouache, and toward dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.
The first written reference to the work shows it was probably in Secco Suardo's collection with other portraits produced for his family by the same artist. [3] At the end of the 18th century, it was still in the family, namely with Caterina Terzi Secco Suardo in Bergamo, shortly before passing to Barbara Secco Suardo Mosconi of the same city and then to the latter's husband Giovanni Mosconi. [4]
Detail of one of the works, showing Francesco II Gonzaga at the Battle of the Taro.. The Fasti of the Gonzagas (Fasti gonzagheschi) or Gonzaga Cycle is a 1578-1580 cycle of oil on canvas paintings commissioned from Tintoretto and his workshop by Guglielmo Gonzaga to hang in two of the new rooms he had added to the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua.
The work is a huge canvas (telero) destined for the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice.It is 26 m 2 in surface, and has rich narrative and iconographic features. The cycle of paintings with stories of the life of St Mark was completed around 60 years later by Giorgione and Tintoretto, and is today housed in the Pinacoteca di Brera and the Accademia in Venice.
Giuseppina Martinuzzi (Albona, 14 February 1844 – Albona, 25 November 1925) was an Italian pedagogue, journalist, socialist, and feminist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Biography
The Portrait of a Man Holding a Letter, also known as The Lawyer, is an oil on canvas painting by Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni, from 1570-1572. It is held at the National Gallery, in London. It is considered one of the most representative paintings of the artist's maturity. [1] [2] [3]