Accademia di San Luca, the painting academy of Rome, named for the Evangelist Saint Luke, reputed to have made a portrait of the Virgin Mary, who was patron of many painters' guilds in the Low Countries and in Italy, was founded in 1593. It has for its modern descendent the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca. Jump to: navigation, search City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area - City Proper 1290 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost... Luke the Evangelist (Greek Λουκας Loukas) is said by tradition to be the author of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the third and fifth books of the New Testament. ... The term Virgin Mary has several different meanings: For the historical and multi-denominational concept of Mary, see Mary, the mother of Jesus. ... The Low Countries, the historical region of de Nederlanden, are the countries (see Country) on low-lying land around the delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse (Maas) rivers. ...
Its predecessor, the guild of painters and miniaturists had its statutes and privilegews renewed much earlier, under Pope Sixtus IV December 17, 1478. The statutes directed that each academician was to donate a work of his art in perpetual memory and later, a portrait. Thus the academy in its premises in Palazzo Carpegna, Piazza dell' Accademia di San Luca, has accumulated a unique collection of paintings and sculptures, including about 500 portraits, as well as an outstanding collection of drawings. Sixtus IV, born Francesco della Rovere (July 21, 1414 – August 12, 1484) was Pope from 1471 to 1484, essentially a Renaissance prince, the Sixtus of the Sistine Chapel where the team of artists he brought together introduced the Early Renaissance to Rome with a masterpiece. ...
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Accademia Nazionale di San Luca Official site (in Italian)
AccademiadiSanLuca, (the "Academy of Saint Luke") was founded in Rome in 1593, "with the ostensible purpose of giving artists a higher education and the real one of asserting the Church's control over art," according to Peter Robb, biographer of the pivotal Baroque artist Caravaggio.
This painting academy of Rome was named for the Evangelist Saint Luke, reputed to have made a portrait of the Virgin Mary, who was patron of many painters' guilds in the Low Countries and in Italy.
Thus the academy in its premises in Palazzo Carpegna, Piazza dell' AccademiadiSanLuca, has accumulated a unique collection of paintings and sculptures, including about 500 portraits, as well as an outstanding collection of drawings.
The church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1658-1671), for Cardinal Camillo Pamphilij (nephew of Pope Innocent X), and is one of the most elegant samples of baroque architecture in Rome, with its well known oval plan and its splendid interiors of marbles, stuccoes, gilt decorations).
The four fountains (Quattro Fontane) and Borromini's church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (or San Carlino - originally Chiesa della Santissima Trinità e diSan Carlo Borromeo), the first work of this architect as well as the last one: the façade was completed after his death.
The church of San Silvestro al Quirinale, which was described for the first time circa 1000, rebuilt in the 16th century and restructured (façade) in the 19th.
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