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The academy was founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa of Austria. In typical Enlightenment fashion, it shared premises with other cultural and scientific institutions – the astronomical observatory, the Orto Botanico di Brera, the Scuole Palatine for philosophy and law, the Gymnasium, laboratories for physics and chemistry, the Biblioteca di Brera, the agricultural society and, from 1806, the ...
The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy , which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera .
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 ...
RETAIL-ART: It has been said that art — as well as beauty — will save the world. As Milan continues to grapple with spiraling COVID-19 cases and many of the city’s retailers remain unable to ...
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 ...
Our Lady of Guadalupe – The first Catholic Church building in Queen Creek is located on the north side of Ocotillo, 3/8 mile west of Ellsworth Road. Queen Creek Historic Town Hall - was built in 1952 as a meeting house for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which stopped using it in 1988. The Town of Queen Creek bought it in 1991.
Among the major exponents are Alessandro Magnasco, who was born in Genoa but trained in Milan; he specialized in certain characteristic figures, such as washerwomen, friars, beggars and soldiers, using a style defined as “touch painting”: moreover, he was accepted into the Milan Academy of St. Luke. [169] Another great exponent of the ...
The Art Institute of Virginia Beach is closing its doors at the end of the month, along with all other branches and campuses of The Art Institute system. The closure was announced on the college ...