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Certosa di Pavia is the name of a famous monastery complex in Lombardy, Italy, situated near a small town (in Province of Pavia) with the same name. Lombardy (Italian: Lombardia) is a region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po river valley. ...
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 Certosa di Pavia: the interior of the church Certosa is the Italian name for Charterhouse, which relates to the cloistered monastic order. The late medieval (nothern Italian gothic) Certosa of Pavia is noted for a highly decorated facade and church interior. It contains a detailed bas-relief depiction of the founding on 27 August 1396 of the structure by Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351 - 1402). Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 424 KB) [edit] Summary [edit] Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Certosa di Pavia ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 424 KB) [edit] Summary [edit] Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Certosa di Pavia ...
Charterhouse is a Carthusian monastery founded in 1371 by Walter de Manny, in Smithfield in the City of London. ...
Besides its original meaning, of or relating to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe and thus the Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet, the word Gothic has been used to refer to distinctly different things: From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of rough, barbarous), it conveyed...
August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ...
Events September 25 - Bayazid I defeats Sigismund of Hungary and John of Nevers at the Battle of Nicopolis. ...
A 19th century version of Giangaleazzo Visconti. ...
It contains the tomb of the first Duke of Milans of Milanese, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, and of despots such as Ludovico Sforza ("The Moor"), 7th Duke of Milan (1452 -1508 (46)), and his wife Beatrice d'Este. Country Italy Region Lombardy Province Milan (MI) Mayor Letizia Moratti Elevation 120 m Area 182 km² Population - Total (as of December 31, 2004) 1,308,311 - Density 6,988/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Milanesi Dialing code 02 Postal code 20100 Patron St. ...
A 19th century version of Giangaleazzo Visconti. ...
Ludovico Sforza in a portrait by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis. ...
Events October - English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, France, and retake most of the province without a fight. ...
1508 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Beatrice dEste (1475-1497), duchess of Milan, one of the most beautiful and accomplished princesses of the Italian Renaissance, was the daughter of Ercole I. dEste and younger sister of Isabella dEste. ...
In the church of the chartreuse there are also paintings and frescoes by Perugino, Bergognone, Bernardino Luini, Andrea Solari, Cerano, Morazzone, Guercino, Daniele Crespi and Giulio Cesare Procaccini and sculptures by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo and Cristoforo Solari. Christ presenting the Keys to St Peter Fresco, 335 x 550 cm Sistine Chapel, Rome Pietro Perugino (1446-1524), whose family name was properly Vannucci, Italian painter, was born at Città della Pieve in Umbria, and belongs to the Umbrian school of painting. ...
Ambrogio Borgognone (c. ...
Bernardino Luini (1482-1532) was an Italian painter. ...
Andrea Solari, also pronounced Solario (c. ...
Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Novara (NO) Mayor Elevation 134 m Area 32. ...
Country Italy Region Lombardy Province Province of Varese (VA) Mayor Elevation m Area 5. ...
The Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591—1666) known as Guercino, was born at Cento, a village not far from Bologna. ...
Daniele Crespi. ...
Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574-1625) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque era in Milan. ...
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (ca. ...
Cristoforo Solari also known as il Gobbo (the hunchbacked) (c. ...
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