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Encyclopedia > Domenico Gagini

Domenico Gagini (1449-1492) was an Italian sculptor. He was the son of Pietro Gagini. The Gagini were a family of sculptors and painters working during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. First recorded in Genoa in the early 15th century, was Domenico's grandfather Beltrame Gagini, and his three sons Pietro, Giovanni and Pace Sculpture is a three-dimensional form created as an artistic expression. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... By region Italian Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Northern Renaissance French Renaissance German Renaissance English Renaissance The Renaissance, also known as Il Rinascimento (in Italian), was an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history. ... Location within Italy Flag of Genoa Christopher Columbus monument in Piazza Aquaverde Genoa (Italian Genova, Genoese Zena, French Gênes, German Genua, Spanish Genova) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ...


Domenico Gagini was the first sculptor of this family to achieve international fame. Having studied in Florence under Brunellesco. Returning to Genoa in 1447 he worked on the sculpture of the dome of the church of S. Giovanni Batiste. In 1457 he was recorded working in Naples for Alfonso of Aragon. In 1463 he arrived in Palermo, Sicily where he ,and later his family including Antonello and Antonio, were influenced the decorative architecture of the island, in works of both decorative and figure sculpture. Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... Events March 6 - Nicholas V becomes Pope. ... St Peters Basilica, Rome A dome is a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. ... Events University of Freiburg founded. ... Location within Italy Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region. ... Events January 5 - Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris Births January 17 - Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (died 1525) February 24 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (died 1494) October 20 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (died 1512) Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici, Italian patron of the arts (died 1503... City nickname: Location Location of Palermo within the island of Sicily. ... Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... Antonello Gagini (1478-1536); was a Sicilian sculptor. ... Antonio Gagini (1504-153?) was a 16th century Italian sculptor. ...


One of Domenico Gagini's most notable works is the decoration of the choir in Palermo Cathedral, these compose of a combination of life size figures within relief panels, plus large number of small free standing figures.


Gagini died in Palermo in 1492.


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Sicilian Baroque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (8316 words)
Antonello Gagini was midway through constructing the church of Santa Maria di Porto Salvo in 1536 in the Renaissance style when he died; he was superseded by the architect Antonio Scaglione, who completed the building in a Norman style.
Architecture in the island's major cities was strongly influenced by the family of the sculptor Domenico Gagini, who arrived from Florence in 1463.
Very importantly, these architects were also assisted by the books of engravings by Domenico de' Rossi who for the first time wrote down text with his engravings, giving the precise dimensions and measurements of many of the principal Renaissance and Baroque facades in Rome.
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In 1516, Antonello Gagini, a sculptor from Palermo, was commissioned by the lawyer Giacomo Basilicò to create an altar with a marble aedicule for the Church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo in Palermo.
Gagini was one of the most important Sicilian Renaissance sculptors, continuing the stylistic innovations already begun by his father Domenico Gagini, and by Laurana, who had attempted to introduce the themes and formal repertoire of the new central Italian Renaissance culture to the city.
The splendid columns, architrave, frieze, and tympanum containing a relief sculpted by Gagini, as well as the two pilasters and various grotesque cornices by Durante, and, finally, the part beneath the altar, modified by the Baroque artist Angelo Italia, were all brought here.
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