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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
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.
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 ...
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 ]
Church of San Giorgio, Ragusa. Designed in 1738 by Rosario Gagliardi, it is approached by huge staircase of some 250 steps. Rosario Gagliardi (1698–1762) was an Italian architect born in Syracuse. He was one of the leading architects working in the Sicilian Baroque.
The Chiesa di San Giorgio Martire or Church of St George the Martyr is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located in Via Verginese in the frazione of Gambulaga, north and within the town limits of Portomaggiore, in the province of Ferrara, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
The Compagnia di San Giorgio ("Company of Saint George") was the name of several companies of mercenaries in Italy during the 14th century. A first company under this name was founded in 1339 by Lodrisio Visconti, usurper of the title of lord of Seprio in northern Italy. [1] It included some 6,500 men.