Tag: Altobello Melone
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05 Works, Today, April 26th, is Saint Alda Gambara’s day, With Footnotes – #116
Altobello Melone (c. 1490–1491 — before 3 May 1543) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. His work merges Lombard and Mannerist styles. He was commissioned in December 1516 to fresco the Cathedral of Cremona, work which continued till 1518. His contract required that his frescoes be more beautiful than his predecessor, Boccaccio Boccaccino. He worked alongside…
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05 Works, Today, April 26th, is Saint Alda Gambara’s day, With Footnotes – #116
Saint Alda, (c. 1249 – c. 1309), was born in Siena, the daughter of the noble Pedro Francisco Ponzi and Inês Bulgarini, whom God had shown in a dream that he had chosen the child for Himself. After being carefully educated and instructed, she was given as a wife to a man “virtutibus ornatissimus” – decorated…
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