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Well-known artworks in the museum's collection include Titian's The Rape of Europa, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo and Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fra Angelico's Death and Assumption of the Virgin, Rembrandt's Self-Portrait, Aged 23, Cellini's Bindo Altoviti, Piero della Francesca's Hercules, and Botticelli's The Story of Lucretia.
Hercules is a fresco fragment by Piero della Francesca, his only known secular work and probably originally part of a cycle of mythological figures. [1] It dates to sometime after 1465 and is now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, which acquired it from Joseph Lindon Smith, who in turn bought it from the Florentine art dealer ...
Francesca's was founded in 1999 by three siblings, Chong Yi, Kyong Gill, Insuk Koo, and their close affiliate friend, John De Meritt, and they opened the first Francesca's stores in Houston, Texas. [2] Francesca's began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on July 22, 2011, trading under the symbol, "FRAN". [3]
Gennaro J. Angiulo was born in 1919 to Italian immigrants Cesare and Giovannina "Jeannie" (née Fimiani) Angiulo, who owned a small grocery store. He grew up with his siblings Nicolo, Donato, Francesco, Antonio, Michele and James.
Francesca Alexander (born Esther Frances Alexander; February 27, 1837 – January 21, 1917) also known as Fanny Alexander, was an American expatriate illustrator, author, folklorist, and translator. Early life
Francesca "Fran" Johnnene (died 2015) was a leading anti-busing advocate during the desegregation of Boston's Public Schools in the 1970s. [1] She was an executive of the Association of Neighborhood Schools and a national representative and board member of Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR), a Boston-based anti-busing organization.
The North End is home to six of Boston's publicly accessible artworks. The Boston Art Commission has care and custody of all public art located on city property. [30] North End Library Mosaics (2009) - located at 25 Parmenter Street. Paul Revere sculpture (1940) - located at the Paul Revere Mall, between Hanover Street and Salem Street.
Francesca and Bertha Braggiotti. Francesca Braggiotti was born in Florence, her father was an Italian tenor, born in Smyrna; her mother was an American mezzo-soprano from Boston. Both her parents were converted to Buddhism, among the earliest Westerners to do so; she was the second of eight brothers and sisters, all destined for success in the ...