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People with the name San Giorgio or Sangiorgio include: The Master of the Antiphonal Q of San Giorgio Maggiore (active between 1440 and 1470), an Italian painter of illuminated manuscripts Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio (died 1509), Italian canon lawyer and Cardinal of Alessandria
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 San Giorgio Monastery was established in 982, when the Benedictine monk Giovanni Morosini [1] asked the doge Tribuno Memmo to donate the whole island for a monastery. [2] Morosini drained the island's marshes next to the church to get the ground for building, and founded the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, and became its first abbot. San ...
Graduated with a thesis in constitutional law in 1974, San Giorgio was councilor of the prefecture for five years, then moved on to the Government Commissariat for the region Emilia-Romagna. She was appointed as a judicial auditor in 1981 and subsequently served as a prosecutor.
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 ]
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, Claude Monet, 1908–1912 Over the centuries the monastery became a theological , cultural and artistic center of primary importance in Europe. The monks had considerable autonomy and close links with Florence and Padua , and thus it became also a favoured location for foreign dignitaries to stay while in the city.
The search for the two missing girls did not yield any results, so the alleged crimes were attributed to packs of wolves that infested the area. On 3 March 1835, during a market day in San Giorgio, Orsolano persuaded 14-year-old Francesca Tonso to follow him to his house with the excuse of buying eggs.
San Giorgio Monferrato (in Piedmontese San Giòrs Monfrà) is a comune of the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont. It is about 60 kilometres (37 mi) east of the regional capital Turin and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Alessandria .