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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).
On 16 December, San Giorgio was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy by the Supreme Court of Cassation. She is the first woman to be chosen as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy as a magistrate of a higher jurisdiction by the Court of Cassation. [2]
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 ]
Victor Sangiorgio was born in Italy but his family moved to Australia when he was four, and settled in Perth, Western Australia.He completed his initial training at Perth Modern School, as a member of the school's music scholarship programme.
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.
The Italian cruiser San Giorgio was the name ship of her class of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century. Commissioned in 1910, the ship was badly damaged when she ran aground before the start of the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, although she was repaired before its end.