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Giovanni Battista Cairati (Cairate, 16th century – Goa, 1596), known in Portuguese as João Baptista Cairato, was an Italian architect and engineer.Cairati was a leading military architect and, after the union of the Portuguese and Spanish empires in 1580, he was sent to the east by Philip II to redesign many of the fortresses. [1]
Philip Howard 1595 Philip Neri: 1515 1595 Robert Southwell: 1561 1595 William Freeman 1595 Blessed Alexander Rawlins 1595 Blessed William Freeman: 1558 1595 Blesseds George Errington 1596 Anthony Dainan 1597 Bonaventure of Miako 1597 Cosmas 1597 Francis of St. Michael 1597 James Kisai 1597 John Soan de Goto 1597 Leo Karasuma 1597 Louis Ibarachi ...
It was produced c. 1550–54 judging by the age at which its subject is shown, [1] though its precise dating is unclear - Philip met the artist in Milan in 1549 during the monarch's first trip to Italy, [2] and again between 1550 and 1551 in Augsburg.
Self-portrait as Saint George. Michiel Coxie the Elder, Michiel Coxcie the Elder or Michiel van Coxcie, Latinised name Coxius [1] [2] (1499 – 3 March 1592), was a Flemish painter of altarpieces and portraits, a draughtsman and a designer of stained-glass windows, tapestries and prints.
John Leonardi, OMD (Italian: Giovanni; 1541 – 9 October 1609) was an Italian Catholic priest and the founder of the Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca. [ 2 ] Biography
Della Torre is attributed as the creator of the "Clockwork Prayer", an automaton representing a monk manufactured in the 1560s based on a commission from Philip II of Spain. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Following the recovery of his son , and in the belief that Didacus of Alcalá had in some way intervened on his behalf, King Philip II of Spain would have ...
A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century (1937). Pepper, Simon, and Nicholas Adams. Firearms & Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-century Siena (University of Chicago Press, 1986). Romier, Lucien, Les guerres d'Henri II et le traité du Cateau-Cambrésis (1554–1559), in: MAH 30 (1910), p. 1–50.
An 18th century engraving, depicting the explosion of one of Giambelli's "hellburners" on the Duke of Parma's pontoon bridge at the Siege of Antwerp in 1585.Giambelli is said to have vowed to be revenged for his rebuff at the Spanish court; and when Antwerp was besieged by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma in 1584, he offered his services to Elizabeth I of England, who, having satisfied herself ...