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Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Gloria Angelica, Foppa Chapel, Church of San Marco, a typical example of art of the second half of the 16th century in Milan. The Milanese art scene of the second half of the 16th century must be analyzed by considering the particular position of the city: while for the Spanish Empire it represented a strategic military outpost, from the religious point of view it was ...
The second phase of the Baroque, which began approximately after the early 1730s, started after a brief interlude filled with significant events: firstly, the main interpreters of the movement died between 1625 (Giulio Cesare Procaccini) and 1632 (Cerano), to which was added the death of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, one of the major figures of ...
Futurism is an avant-garde movement founded in Milan in 1909 by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. [1] Marinetti launched the movement in his Manifesto of Futurism , [ 3 ] which he published for the first time on 5 February 1909 in La gazzetta dell'Emilia , an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on Saturday ...
The name of the movement (which means 1900s) was a deliberate reference to great periods of Italian art in the past, the Quattrocento and Cinquecento (1400s and 1500s). The group rejected European avant garde art and wished to revive the tradition of large format history painting in the classical manner.
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Prolonged visits to the town were made by artists from other parts of Italy and other countries, including Velázquez, Van Dyck, the French sculptor Pierre Puget, Bernardo Strozzi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Another Italian city which had a vibrant Baroque movement was Milan. The city hosted numerous formidable artists, architects and ...
Ambrogio Figino, Portrait of St. Charles Borromeo (1585), Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. With the advent of the Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation Church, ecclesiastical authorities exploited art as a means of spreading the new doctrines in opposition to Protestantism and other heresies; art was therefore subjected to strict canons and controls so that artists depicted episodes from ...
The main Italian inspiration of the Scapigliati was the writer and journalist Giuseppe Rovani (1818–1874), author of the novel Cento Anni and the influential aesthetic theories of his essays Le Tre Arti, an anti-conformist and charismatic figure on the fringes of the literary world of Milan, the city where the movement first developed through ...